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Pygmalion (mythology) In Greek mythology, Pygmalion ( / pɪɡˈmeɪliən /; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen .: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus. 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 ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871.
Philostephanus of Cyrene ( Philostephanus Cyrenaeus [1]) ( Ancient Greek: Φιλοστέφανος) was a Hellenistic writer from North Africa, who was a pupil of the poet Callimachus in Alexandria and doubtless worked there during the 3rd century BC. His history of Cyprus, De Cypro, written during the reign of Ptolemy Philopator (222–206 BC ...
Dido ( / ˈdaɪdoʊ / DY-doh; Ancient Greek: Διδώ Greek pronunciation: [diː.dɔ̌ː], Latin pronunciation: [ˈdiːdoː] ), also known as Elissa ( / əˈlɪsə / ə-LISS-ə, Ἔλισσα ), [ 1] was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in Tunisia ), in 814 BC. In most accounts, she was the ...
Pygmalion. (Rousseau) Pygmalion (French: Pygmalion) is the most influential dramatic work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, other than his opera Le devin du village. Though now rarely performed, it was one of the first ever melodramas (that is, a play consisting of pantomime gestures and the spoken word, both with a musical accompaniment).
Pygmalion (Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmaliōn; Latin: Pygmalion) was king of Tyre [1] from 831 to 785 BCE and a son of King Mattan I (840–832 BC).. During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus, Sardinia (see Nora Stone ...
Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting. The poem is pastoral, and at times ...
The World's Wife is a collection of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, originally published in the UK in 1999 by both Picador [1] and Anvil Press Poetry [2] and later published in the United States by Faber and Faber in 2000. [3] Duffy's poems in The World's Wife focus on either well known female figures or fictional counterparts to well known male ...