Pygmalion of Tyre Pygmalion of Tyre Pygmalion (also known as Pu'mayyaton) was king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BC and a son of King Mattan I (840-832 BC). During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus, Sardinia (see Nora Stone discussion below), and, according to tradition, Carthage. For the story surrounding the founding of Carthage, see Dido. A possible reference to Pygmalion is an interpretation of the Nora Stone, found on Sardinia in 1773 and,
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