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. Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal region then called PÅ«t in Ancient Egyptian, Canaan in Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic, and Phoenicia in Greek and Latin. ... Hesychois of Alexandria was a Greek Grammarian of the 5th or 6th century BC. He was the author of an encyclopedia, where the subjects appear in alphabetical order. ... Adonis is an archetypal life-death-rebirth deity in Greek mythology, and a central cult figure in various mystery religions. ... The Levant The Levant (IPA: /lÉ™vænt/) is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. ...

Pygmalion may mean one of the following:

• Pygmalion of Tyre, a King of Tyre, also a character in Virgil's masterpiece The Aeneid
• Pygmalion (mythology), the name of a sculptor who created an ivory statue, Galatea, and fell in love with it.
• Pigmalion (opera), a 1748 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
• Pygmalion (opera), a late 18th century duodrama by Georg Anton Benda
• Pygmalion (play), a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw
• Pygmalion (1938 film), a movie based on the play by George Bernard Shaw
• Il Pigmalione, an 1816 opera by Donizetti
• Pygmalion (album), an album by Slowdive
• Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed a musical comedy composed by Meyer Lutz

In psychology, it may refer to: Pygmalion (also known as Pumayyaton) was king of Tyre from 820 to 774 BC and a son of King Mattan I (829-821 BC). ... Étienne Maurice Falconet: Pygmalion & Galatee (1763) Pygmalion is a fictional character from the Roman poet Ovid, found in the tenth book of his Metamorphoses. ... Pigmalion (Pygmalion) is an opera in the form of a one-act acte de ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 27 August 1748 at the Opéra in Paris. ... Georg Anton [Jirí Antonin] Benda Bohemian composer, born 1722 died 1795. ... Play cover, depicting Mrs Campbell as Eliza Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on Ovids tale of Pygmalion. ... Pygmalion is a 1938 movie produced by Gabriel Pascal and starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller, based on the 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw. ... Young Donizetti in Bergamo Il Pigmalione (Pygmalion) is an opera in one act by Gaetano Donizetti to the libretto of Antonio Simeone Sografi. ... Pygmalion is the final album released in 1995 by the band Slowdive. ... Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed is a musical comedy that parodies the Pygmalion legend. ...

• 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.

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