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) on the subjects of class division and social mobility, and it's as enjoyable to view these subtle differences in settings and costumes as it is to imagine translators wracking their brains for their own equivalent of 'Not bloody likely'." [[Joseph Weizenbaum]] named his [[artificial intelligence]] computer program [[ELIZA]] after the character Eliza Doolittle. [[File:Pygmalion-Fontanne-1926.jpg|thumb|[[Lynn Fontanne]] as Eliza Doolittle in the [[Theatre Guild]] production of "Pygmalion" (1926)]] [[File:Julie Andrews Rex Harrison My Fair Lady.JPG|thumb|[[Julie Andrews]] as flower girl Eliza Doolittle meets [[Rex Harrison]] as Professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical adaptation of "Pygmalion", "[[My Fair Lady]]".]] [[File:Harry Stradling-Audrey Hepburn in