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1. Pygmalion
   [n] - (Greek mythology) a king who created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it
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2. Pygmalion
   In Greek mythology, a king of Cyprus who fell in love with an ivory statue he had carved. When Aphrodite breathed life into it, he married the woman...
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3. Pygmalion
   noun (Greek mythology) a king who created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it; Aphrodite brought the sculpture to life as Galatea
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4. Pygmalion
   (from the article `dance, Western`) ...a highly ambitious dramatic dancer. Despairing of the opéras-ballets of Paris, she went to London, where she performed in pantomimes and produced ... Dancers, too, wished to be liberated from the pannier and tonneler. In Pygmalion, a ballet of her own composition, Marie Sallé danced i...
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5. Pygmalion
   (from the article `Rameau, Jean-Philippe`) The zenith of Rameau`s career may be said to have encompassed the brief span from 1748, when he tossed off the masterpiece Pygmalion in eight days ...
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6. Pygmalion
   (from the article `Shaw, George Bernard`) Possibly Shaw`s comedic masterpiece, and certainly his funniest and most popular play, is Pygmalion (performed 1913). It was claimed by Shaw to be a ...
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7. Pygmalion
   (from the article `Benda, Georg`) ...toured Italy (1765–66) and composed Italian operas and intermezzi, but the works that won him renown throughout Europe were his melodramas Ariadne ...
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8. Pygmalion
   (from the article `1938: Other Winners`) Screenplay: George Bernard Shaw; adaptation by Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb for PygmalionOriginal Story: Eleanore Griffin and Dore ...
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9. Pygmalion
   in Greek mythology, a king who was the father of Metharme and, through her marriage to Cinyras, the grandfather of Adonis, according to Apollodorus ... [1 related articles]
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10. Pygmalion
    In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a king of Cyprus who made an image in ivory of a maiden. He fell in love with the image and asked Venus to endow it with life. She did, and Pygmalion married the maiden.
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11. Pygmalion
    Pygmalion (pigmāl'yun) . 1. In Greek mythology, king of Cyprus. He fell in love with a beautiful statue of a woman. When he prayed to Aphrodite for a wife like it, the goddess brought the statue to life and Pygmalion married her. In one version of the legend, the statue becomes Aphrodite; ...
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12. Pygmalion
    In Greek mythology, a king of Cyprus who fell in love with an ivory statue he had carved. When Aphrodite breathed life into it, he married the woman and named her Galatea. Their children were Paphos and Metharme
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13. Pygmalion
    `Pygmalion` is a Greek name. Pygmalion—or Pygmaion according to Hesychios of Alexandria—is probably a Cypriot form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god. It may refer to: In the `arts`, the mythical character is depicted or is alluded to in (listed in roughly chronological order) the following: In `psychology`:
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14. Pygmalion
    (play) `Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts` (1912) is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador`s garden party by teaching h...
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15. Pygmalion
    (mythology) `Pygmalion` is a legendary figure of Πυγμαλίων-->, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος--> is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid`s Metamorphoses, X, in which Pygmalion...
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16. Pygmalion
    (album) `Pygmalion` is the third and final studio album by the band Slowdive, released on February 6, 1995. A departure from their previous two albums, Pygmalion incorporated a more experimental sound tilted towards ambient electronic music, with sparse, atmospheric arrangements. All c...
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17. Pygmalion
    (Rousseau) `Pygmalion` is the most influential dramatic work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, other than his opera Le devin du village. Though now rarely performed, it was one of the first ever melodramas (that is, a play consisting of pantomime gestures and the spoken word, both with ...
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