Pygmalion (mythology)

Pygmalion (mythology)

Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus. Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid's Metamorphoses, X, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.

Read more about Pygmalion (mythology):  In Ovid, Parallels in Greek Myth, Re-interpretations of Pygmalion