Pygmalion
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Pygmalion may refer to the following:
- Pygmalion, a king of Tyre, brother of Queen Dido of Carthage.
- Pygmalion, a mythical king of Cyprus, father of Metharme, grandfather of Adonis.
- Pygmalion, a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw.
- Pygmalion from the Roman poet Ovid.
- In Virgil's masterpiece The Aeneid, Pygmalion is the cruel-hearted brother of Dido who secretly kills Dido's husband Sychaeus because of his lust for gold.
Pygmalion is a Greek name, probably going back to Phoenician roots. Pygmalion—or Pygmaion according to Hesychios of Alexandra—is probably a Cypriote form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god.
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