Pygmalion (mythology) has earned many accolades. Madhu Rye adapted "Pygmalion" in Gujarati as "Santu Rangili" (1976) which was successful. Pygmalion (mythology) Pygmalion (; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων "Pugmalíōn", "gen".: Πυγμαλίωνος) is a legendary figure of Cyprus. Though "Pygmalion" is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name "Pumayyaton", 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. In Ovid's narrative, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides he was "not interested in women", but his
Pygmalion (play) My Fair Lady.jpg|thumb|Cinematographer Harry Stradling poses with [[Audrey Hepburn]] as Eliza Doolittle on the set of the 1964 movie musical "My Fair Lady."]] [[Category:1913 books]] [[Category:1913 plays]] [[Category:West End plays]] [[Category:Plays by George Bernard Shaw]] [[Category:Works originally published in Everybody's Magazine]] [[Category:Literature first published in serial form]] [[Category:Plays set in London]] [[Category:British plays adapted into films]] Pygmalion (play) Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to