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PYGMALION

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 677 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PYGMALION  , in

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Greek
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mythology, son of Cilix, and
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grandson of Agenor,
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king of
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Cyprus . He
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fell in love with an
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ivory statue he had made;
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Aphrodite granted
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life to the
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image, and Pygmalion married the miraculously-
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born virgin (
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Ovid, Metam. x . 243) . There is no
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ancient authority for the introduction of the name Galatea into the
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story . Pygmalion is also the name given in
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Virgil (Aeneid, i, 347) to a king of
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Tyre, who murdered Sychaeus, the
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husband of his
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sister
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Dido .

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