Pygmalion

Pygmalion may refer to the following:

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• 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.
• The mythological sculptor Pygmalion who falls in love with a statue he has made, from a poem by 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.
• The pygmalion effect, a concept in psychology describing the behavior of individuals as people expect them to behave, named after the myth of Pygmalion.
• An adventure and role playing game systemcurrently under development.

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.

Related Topics:
Phoenician - Hesychios of Alexandra - Cypriote - Levantine

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