In Ovid's narrative, they had a daughter, Paphos, from whom the city's name is derived. Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture, which changed to a woman under Aphrodite's blessing. He kissed it again, and found that the ivory had lost its hardness. When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm. There, too afraid to admit his desire, he quietly wished for a bride who would be "the living likeness of my ivory girl".
In time, Aphrodite's festival day came and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. Pygmalion kisses and fondles the sculpture, brings it various gifts, and creates a sumptuous bed for it. He made a sculpture of a woman that he found so perfect he fell in love with it. He determined to remain celibate and to occupy himself with sculpting. Post-classical sources name her Galatea.Īccording to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.
In Greek mythology, Pygmalion ( / p ɪ ɡ ˈ m eɪ l i ən/ Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus, who was a king and a sculptor. Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717
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