Galatea (mythology) called Metharme ("change"), to mark the innovation." "Pygmalion" is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name "Pumayyaton": see Pygmalion of Tyre. Galatea is a dairy farming community in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Galatea (mythology) Galatea (; ; "she who is milk-white") is a name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came to life in Greek mythology. In modern English the name usually alludes to that story. Galatea is also the name of Polyphemus's object of desire in Theocritus's "Idylls VI" and "XI" and is linked with Polyphemus again in the
Zakynthos (mythology) him. Zakynthos is depicted on the flag of Zakynthos. Zakynthos (mythology) In Greek mythology, Zakynthos or Zacynthus (Ancient Greek: Ζάκυνθος) was a Psophidian who became the founder of a colony in the island of Zacynthus, which derived its name from him. The name, like all similar names ending in -nthos, is pre-Mycenaean or Pelasgian in origin. Zacynthus was the son of the legendary Arcadian chief Dardanus by his wife Bateia, daughter of Teucer. He was the brother of Erichthonius and probably, Ilus and Idaea. Zacynthus was first man to sail across the island opposite the coast of Elis and became