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ΠΥΓΜΑΛΙΩΝ και ΓΑΛΑΤΕΙΑ

Pygmalion and Galateia

The myth about a Greek Sculptor who fall in love with a female Statue

Ο Πυγμαλίων ήταν ένας γλύπτης με καταγωγή από την Αμαθούντα. Αφοσιωμένος καθώς ήταν με τη δουλειά του, δεν έβρισκε ποτέ χρόνο να ασχοληθεί με το ωραίο φύλο πόσο μάλλον δε να συνάψει κάποιο δεσμό. Η θεά Αφροδίτη τον λυπήθηκε και αποφάσισε να παρουσιαστεί στο όνειρό του. Όταν ξύπνησε ο Πυγμαλίων, έκθαμβος από την ωραιότητα της γυναίκας που ονειρεύτηκε άρχιζε να σκαλίζει ένα γλυπτό με τη μορφή της. Όταν το τελείωσε, ένιωθε ήδη ερωτευμένος με αυτό. 

Ο Πυγμαλίων, σύμφωνα με το μύθο, είχε ερωτευτεί παράφορα το άγαλμα, του μίλαγε και του προσέφερε λουλούδια. Δεν άντεχε όμως άλλο κι αποφάσισε να ζητήσει τη βοήθεια της θεάς. Κατά τη διάρκεια των Αφροδισίων, έκανε μία προσφορά στη θεά ικετεύοντάς την να ζωντανέψει το άγαλμα. Η Αφροδίτη συγκινήθηκε από την παράκληση του γλύπτη και μεταμόρφωσε το άγαλμα στην πιο ιδανική γυναίκα. Και την ονόμασε Γαλάτεια. Ο Πυγμαλίων δεν έχασε καιρό και την έκανε γυναίκα του. 

Σε κάποιες άλλες παραλλαγές του μύθου, ο Πυγμαλίων παρουσιάζεται ως Βασιλιάς της Κύπρου και η Γαλάτεια ήταν η ίδια η Αφροδίτη που χρησιμοποίησε το άγαλμα και παντρεύτηκε τον γλύπτη….

The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea is probably one of the most known stories in Greek Mythology.

The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea is also one of the most influential and inspiring ancient Greek myths, and became the main theme for theatrical plays, movies and artistic paintings.

Pygmalion The Sculptor

Pygmalion was a talented Greek sculptor from Cyprus. After becoming disgusted by some local prostitutes, he lost all interest in women and avoided their company completely.

Pygmalion saw women as flawed creatures and vowed never to waste any moment of his life with them. He dedicated himself to his work and soon created Galatea, a beautiful stature of a woman out of ivory.Ironically, the masterpiece of his life was this statue of a woman. Perhaps he sought to correct in marble the flaws he saw in women of flesh and blood.Pygmalion’s Statue

Whatever the case, Pygmalion worked so long and with such inspiration on the statue of Galatea, that it became more beautiful than any woman that had ever lived or been carved in stone.

Pygmalion and Galatea

As he finished the statue’s features, they became exquisitely lovely, and he found himself applying the strokes of hammer and chisel with increasing affection. When his chisel finally stopped ringing, there stood before him a woman of such perfection that Pygmalion, who had professed his disdain of all females, fell deeply in love.

He would bring it gifts, caress it, kiss it and talk to it every day. He brought it gifts he thought women would enjoy, such as pretty seashells, beads, songbirds, baubles and flowers.He would dress the statue in fine clothing, and put rings on her fingers, necklaces around her neck and even earrings. However, what irony that he who had scorned women should fall in love with a woman who could never love him in return!


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