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
Ancient Greek literature the most popular books ever published in the United States". George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" is a modern, rationalized retelling of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion. James Joyce's novel "Ulysses", heralded by critics as one of the greatest works of modern literature, is a retelling of Homer's "Odyssey" set in modern-day Dublin. The mid-twentieth-century British author Mary Renault wrote a number of critically acclaimed novels inspired by ancient Greek literature and mythology, including "The Last of the Wine" and "The King Must Die". Even in works that do not consciously draw on Graeco-Roman literature, authors often employ concepts and