Falconet's 1763 sculpture Pygmalion and Galatea (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore). Galatea (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white") [1] is the post-antiquity name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory alabaster by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came to life in Greek mythology.

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Galathea, a cow in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel Farmer Giles of Ham; Galatea, a character in the mobile game Fate/Grand Order; Galatea Dunkel, in the 1957 novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Galatea, in Greek mythology, a Nereid who was loved by the Cyclops Polyphemus. Galatea, however, loved the youth Acis. When Polyphemus discovered Acis and Galatea together, he crushed Acis to death with a boulder. Galatea is also the name, in some versions of the Pygmalion story, of the statue that

2010年12月3日 · 15th May 2021 : This story, or the part up to the kiss, has been represented in dance by Jevgeny Grib of the Estonian National Opera. There are five sections in the work, of which the story of Pygmalion and Galatea is the first.

A play titled Titirus and Galathea was entered into the Stationers' Register on 1 April 1585. Some scholars have speculated that this play, otherwise unknown, may have been an early version of Lyly's work – though the point is open to doubt, since what clearly was Lyly's play was entered into the Register on 4 October 1591 , along with his ...

GALATEA, ACIS & THE CYCLOPS POLYPHEMUS Polyphemus and Galatea, Roman fresco from Imperial Villa at Boscotrecase C1st B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art Bacchylides, Fragment 59 (from Natale Conti, Mythology) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric IV) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :