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Pygmalion (mythology)
King and sculptor in Greek mythology / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Pygmalion (disambiguation).
In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.
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