For an English assignment I was asked what the name Pygmalion means? I know the story that it comes from, but that does not necessarily give its meaning. Could you please help me???
2007-02-13 09:41:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
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.
The pygmalion effect, a concept in psychology describing the behavior of individuals as people expect them to behave
Pygmalionism (aka statuephilia or agalmatophilia), an erotic attraction to statues or immobility.
2007-02-13 09:46:00 · answer #1 · answered by kenjinuk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is all I could find:
Pygmalion is a Greek name, probably going back to Phoenician roots. Pygmalion—or Pygmaion according to Hesychios of Alexandra—is probably a Cypriot form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god.
2007-02-13 09:45:20 · answer #2 · answered by Radio Flyer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A king of Cyprus who carved and then fell in love with a statue of a woman, which Aphrodite brought to life as Galatea.
2007-02-13 09:46:34 · answer #3 · answered by saffmonster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The scuptor fell in love with a statue...that's what I've always heard.
2007-02-13 09:45:40 · answer #4 · answered by marie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Literally translated it means "turtle-head"...
2007-02-13 09:57:52 · answer #5 · answered by Kiowa1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋