In Mythology
- Galatea (mythology):
- Galatea, a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus (daughter of Galatea)
- Galatea, a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea (mythology)
- Galatea, name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion (mythology)
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Famous quotes containing the word mythology:
“The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Love, love, love—all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)