Aphrodite patronized everyone whose love was strong and constant. An example of Cypris's exceptional favor towards one of her lovers is the story that happened with the king of Cyprus, the young Pygmalion, skilled in sculpting.

Once Pygmalion managed to carve a statue of a young woman of amazing beauty from precious ivory. The more often Pygmalion admired his creation, the more merit he found in it. It began to seem to him that not a single mortal woman surpassed his statue in beauty and nobility. Jealous of everyone who might see her, Pygmalion did not allow anyone into the workshop. Alone - during the day in the rays of Helios, at night by the light of lamps - the young king admired the statue and whispered to it tender words, gave flowers and jewelry, as lovers do. He named her Galatea, dressed her in purple and seated her next to him on the throne.

During the festival of Aphrodite, celebrated by all the islanders, Pygmalion in the out-of-town sanctuary of the goddess made sacrifices to her with the prayer:

- Oh, if only I had a wife like my creation.

The goddess heard many fervent prayers on her day, but she condescended to Pygmalion alone, for she knew that there was no person in all of Cyprus who loved as ardently and sincerely as Pygmalion. And the sacrificial fire flashed three times in the altar as a sign that Aphrodite heard Pygmalion and heeded his plea.

Unable to feel his feet under him, the king rushed to the palace. And here he is in the workshop, next to his hand-made lover.

- Why are you still sleeping? - he turned to her with a gentle reproach. “Open your eyes, and you will see that Helios’s solar chariot has already risen, and he will tell you the good news.”

The rays fell on the ivory face, and it seemed to Pygmalion that it turned a little pink. Grabbing his girlfriend by the hand, he felt that the bone was yielding to the pressure of his fingers, he saw that the skin on her face was becoming whiter and a blush appeared on her cheeks. The chest expanded, filling with air. And Pygmalion heard the calm and even breathing of the sleeping woman. The eyelids lifted, and the eyes flashed with that dazzling blue of the sea that washes the island of Aphrodite.

The news is that the bone was revived by the power of love and not the elephant to whom it belonged was born, but a beautiful maiden, a short time flew around the entire island. Huge crowds flocked to the square in front of the palace, happy Pygmalion was no longer afraid of envious glances and gossip. He brought out the newborn, and, seeing her beauty, people fell to their knees and loudly praised the Lady Aphrodite, who gives love to everything that lives, and who can revive stone and bone in the name of love and for love.

Immediately, in front of everyone, Pygmalion proclaimed the girl the queen of Cyprus and covered her fragrant hair with a royal crown. In a purple robe, her face beaming with newfound happiness, she was as beautiful as Aphrodite herself.

Aphrodite gives happiness to those who faithfully serve the goddess of love.

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Pygmalion was a sculptor of the island of Cyprus, the son of Bel and Ankhinoe. He carved an ivory statue and fell in love with it. He gave her gifts, dressed her in expensive clothes, but the statue continued to remain a statue, and unrequited love. During a holiday dedicated to Aphrodite, Pygmalion turned to the goddess with a prayer to give him a wife as beautiful as the sculpture he made. Pygmalion did not dare to ask to revive the cold statue. Touched by such love, Aphrodite brought the statue to life, which became the wife of Pygmalion. This myth may have been introduced into literature by Neanthes of Cyzicus. The golden Pygmalion olive was kept in Gadir.

According to one version, the wife gave birth to Pygmalion’s sons Paphos, Kinira and daughter Metarmus. According to Ovid, Cinyrus was the son of Paphos. There is also a known version according to which Pathos is not the son, but the daughter of Pygmalion.

The name of Pygmalion's wife is not mentioned in ancient sources. Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his work “Pygmalion” (1762) called her Galatea. This name was borne by the Nereid from another famous ancient Greek myth, and it was often found in pastoral works of the XVIII century.

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– I have already answered this question to you so many times, Holiness! What could have changed in such a short time?
There was a feeling of fainting, but, looking into Anna’s eyes shining with pride, all the bad things suddenly disappeared somewhere... How bright and beautiful my daughter was at that terrible moment!..
-Are you crazy, Madonna! Can you really just send your daughter to the basement?.. You know perfectly well what awaits her there! Come to your senses, Isidora!..
Suddenly, Anna came close to Karaffa and said in a clear, ringing voice:
– You are not a judge and not God!.. You are just a sinner! That is why the Ring of Sinners burns your dirty fingers!.. I think it is not by chance that you are wearing it... For you are the most vile of them! You won't scare me, Caraffa. And my mother will never submit to you!
Anna straightened up and... spat in Dad's face. Caraffa turned deathly pale. I've never seen anyone turn pale so quickly! His face literally turned ashen gray in a split second... and in his burning dark eyes death broke out. Still standing in a “tetanus” from Anna’s unexpected behavior, I suddenly understood everything - she was deliberately provoking Karaffa so as not to delay!.. In order to quickly decide something and not torment me. To go to her own death... My soul was wracked with pain - Anna reminded me of the girl Damiana... She decided her fate... and I couldn’t help. I couldn't intervene.
- Well, Isidora, I think you will greatly regret this. You are a bad mother. And I was right about women - they are all the offspring of the devil! Including my poor mother.
- Forgive me, your Holiness, but if your mother is the offspring of the Devil, then who then are you?.. After all, you are flesh of her flesh? – I asked, sincerely surprised by his delusional judgments.
- Oh, Isidora, I have long ago exterminated this in myself!.. And only when I saw you, my feeling for a woman awakened in me again. But now I see that I was wrong! You are just like everyone else! You are terrible!.. I hate you and people like you!
Caraffa looked crazy... I was afraid that this could end for us in something much worse than what was planned in the beginning. Suddenly, suddenly jumping up to me, Dad literally shouted: “Yes” or “no”?!.. I’m asking you in last time, Isidora!..
What could I answer to this deranged man?.. Everything had already been said, and I could only remain silent, ignoring his question. 

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From ancient Greek mythology. The myth about the sculptor Pygmalion says that he once openly declared his contempt for women. Hearing this, the goddess of love Aphrodite decided to punish him - to make him not only fall in love, but also experience the pangs of unrequited love. The goddess made Pygmalion fall in love with the stone statue he was working on at the time. The sculptor fell in love with the stone Galatea (named after the girl who served as his model), and his feeling was so strong that, obeying him, the statue came to life and the master was able to experience the happiness of mutual love.
Allegorically: about a person who, by the power of his feelings, forces another person to be spiritually reborn, to “come to life” for another life. This image became especially popular after the appearance of Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913).

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- (Pigmalion, Πυγμαλίων). 1) Dido’s brother, the king of Tire, who killed her husband Sychaeus, after which she fled and founded Carthage on the coast of Africa. 2) Tsar on the island. Cyprus, who fell in love with a sculpture of a girl he himself made. Through his prayer, Aphrodite revived the statue... ... Encyclopedia of Mythology

Pygmalion- Pygmalion. Sculpture group EM. Falcone Pygmalion and Galatea. 1763. Louvre. Pygmalion. Sculpture group E.M. Falcone Pygmalion and Galatea. 1763. Louvre. Pygmalion in the myths of the ancient Greeks was the king of Cyprus, who led a solitary life. To… … Encyclopedic Dictionary of World History

Pygmalion- Pygmalion. Sculpture group E.M. Falcone Pygmalion and Galatea. 1763. Louvre. PYGMALION, in Greek mythology, the king of Cyprus, a sculptor who fell in love with the statue of Galatea he created. Aphrodite, at the request of Pygmalion, revived the statue, and Galatea became his... ... Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary

The Comedy of Bernard Shaw (1913), one of the first texts of European neo-mythologism, although still somewhat naively and superficially understood. It is known that Shaw grasped on the fly ideas that were floating in the air. And the myth of Pygmalion is not the main thing that is important to us... Encyclopedia of Cultural Studies

The fabulous king of Cyprus, who fell in love with an ivory statue of a girl sculpted by himself; Having asked Venus to revive her, he married her. Dictionary foreign words, included in the Russian language. Chudinov A.N., 1910. PYGMALION... ... Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language

In Greek mythology, the legendary sculptor, the king of Cyprus, fell in love with the statue of Galatea he created. Aphrodite, at the request of Pygmalion, revived the statue, and Galatea became his wife. IN figuratively a man in love with his creation... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

Noun, number of synonyms: 1 character (103) ASIS Dictionary of Synonyms. V.N. Trishin. 2013… Synonym dictionary

And Galatea. Book About a man in love with his creation. /i> Goes back to ancient Greek myth. BMS 1998, 446 ... Big dictionary Russian sayings

This term has other meanings, see Pygmalion (meanings). Franz von Stuck. “Pygmalion” Pygmalion (ancient Greek ... Wikipedia

The name of two characters from classical mythology. More famous is Pygmalion, who, according to Greek legend, was the king of Cyprus and fell in love with a statue he himself created. He turned to Aphrodite with a request to give him a wife similar to this statue, and the goddess... ... Collier's Encyclopedia

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• Pygmalion, Shaw Bernard. The collection includes three plays by Bernard Shaw. Among them, the most famous is “Pygmalion” (1912), based on which many films were made and the legendary Broadway musical “My Fair…” was staged.

"Pygmalion and Galatea." This story is from the book by N.A. Kuhn. "Legends and Myths Ancient Greece", and the source of the plot was Ovid's "Metamorphoses". This legend inspired Bernard Shaw to create his "Pygmalion", which was filmed with the title "My wonderful lady». Among the works written in the pre-war period, Shaw's most popular play was the comedy Pygmalion (1912)

First about the legend

Aphrodite gives happiness to those who faithfully serve the goddess of love. This is how she gave happiness to the Cypriot artist Pygmalion. He hated women and lived in solitude, avoiding marriage. One day he made a statue of a girl of extraordinary beauty from shiny white ivory. This statue stood as if alive in the artist’s studio; it seemed as if it was breathing and was about to move and speak. The artist spent hours admiring his work and finally fell in love with the statue he himself had created. He gave her precious necklaces, wrists and earrings, dressed her in luxurious clothes, and decorated her head with wreaths of flowers. As Pygmalion often whispered:
- Oh, if you were alive, if you could respond to my speeches, oh, how happy I would be!
But the statue was silent. The days of celebrations in honor of Aphrodite have arrived. Sacrificing a white heifer with gilded horns to Aphrodite, he stretched out his hands to the goddess of love and whispered with a prayer:
- Oh, eternal gods and you, golden Aphrodite!
If you can give everything to the one who asks, then give me a wife as beautiful as that statue of a girl that I made myself. Pygmalion did not dare to ask the gods to revive his statue, fearing to anger the Olympian gods with such a request. The sacrificial flame flared up brightly in front of the image of the goddess of love Aphrodite; by this the goddess made it clear to Pygmalion that she had heard his prayer. The artist returned home. He approached the statue and, oh happiness, oh joy! The statue has come to life! It beats
heart, life shines in her eyes. So the goddess Aphrodite gave Pygmalion his beautiful wife Galatea.

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Main character The play also fell in love with his creation, while he humanized the vulgar flower girl into a lady. By the way, maybe he would have made an ideal lady, but the creator himself, as it turned out, is not an ideal gentleman at all. But he worked no less than the legendary Pygmalion on his Galatea. It didn't turn out that bad.

The musical "My Fair Lady" based on Barnard Shaw's play "Pygmalion"!

The sculptor Pygmalion, who sculpted the statue of Galatea, fell in love with it, Shaw gives his own, modern version ancient myth. Phonetics professor Higgins makes a bet with Colonel Pickering that in a few months he will be able to train a street flower vendor correct speech and make sure that “she could successfully pass for a duchess.” But in an atmosphere of attention and respect for her personality, Eliza shows extraordinary abilities, intelligence, talent, sense of inner dignity. By naming the play after the mythical Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw recalled that Eliza Dolittle was created by Alfred Higgins in the same way as Galatea was created by Pygmalion.

A girl from the East End of London with all the traits of a street child turns into a woman with the traits of a high society lady.

How much does speech affect human life. What gives a person correct pronunciation? Is learning to speak correctly enough to change your social position? Here's what Professor Higgins thinks about this: “But if you knew how interesting it is - to take a person and, teaching him to speak differently than he spoke until now, make him a completely different, new creature. Shaw was perhaps the first to realize the omnipotence of language in society, its exceptional social role, which psychoanalysis indirectly spoke about in the same years.

Eliza goes out into the world. But he doesn’t know what to talk about in society on this beautiful literary language. It turned out that it is not enough to master the pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. She must still develop the interests characteristic of a lady. As long as her heart and mind are filled with the problems of her old world - murders over a straw hat and the beneficial effect of gin on her father's mood - she cannot become a lady, even if her language is indistinguishable from the language of a lady.

Higgins had to deal with another “insult to living syntax in English" - Eliza's father Dolittle. Doolittle's transformation into a gentleman was not an easy process. Converted by the vaccine-free Trust "Friend of the Stomach" and a prominent speaker of Wannafeller's World League for Moral Reform, he, in essence, even remained with his real profession, which, according to Eliza, even before his social transformation, consisted of extorting money from other people, using his eloquence.

Higgins had to deal with another “insult to the living syntax of the English language” - Eliza’s father Doolittle. Doolittle's transformation into a gentleman was not an easy process. Transformed into a shareholder in the Friend of the Stomach cheese trust and a prominent spokesman for Wannafeller's World League for Moral Reform, he, in essence, even remained in his real profession, which, according to Eliza, even before his social transformation, was to extort money from others people, using their eloquence.

Bernard Shaw demonstrates the presence of natural abilities and their importance for creating characters in the Higgins-Pickering pair. Both of them in their own way social status gentlemen, but with the difference that Pickering is a gentleman, Higgins is a brute. Higgins treats Eliza rudely, impolitely, and unceremoniously. In her presence, he speaks of her as “stupid girl”, “stuffed animal”, “so irresistibly vulgar, so blatantly dirty”, “nasty, spoiled girl” and the like. He asks his housekeeper to wrap Eliza in newspaper and throw her in the trash. The only norm for talking to her is the imperative form, and the preferred way of influencing Eliza is a threat. Pickering, a born gentleman, on the contrary, shows tact and exceptional politeness in his treatment of Eliza from the very beginning. He does not allow himself to be provoked into making an unpleasant or rude statement either by the intrusive behavior of the flower girl or by the bad example of Higgins. There may be innate tendencies towards rude or delicate behavior.

Eliza did not become a countess, as Higgins repeatedly said, but she became a woman whose strength and energy are admired. It is significant that even Higgins cannot deny her attractiveness - disappointment and hostility soon turn into the opposite. He seems to have even forgotten about the initial desire for a different result and the desire to make Eliza a countess.

A person succumbs to temptation and becomes a hostage to his obsession. Can he control himself when faced with the object of his desire? Pygmalion is a story about the inner struggle between love and obsessive passion. The cartoon is based on ancient Greek myth about Pygmalion.
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Pygmalion

in Greek mythology, the legendary sculptor, the king of Cyprus, who fell in love with the statue of Galatea he created. Aphrodite, at the request of Pygmalion, revived the statue, and Galatea became his wife. In a figurative sense - a person in love with his creation.

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Pygmalion

The legendary king of Cyprus and a skilled sculptor, who lived alone and avoided women. He made an ivory statue of a beautiful woman and fell in love with her. P. prayed to Aphrodite to breathe life into the statue. Touched by P.'s love, Aphrodite turned the statue into a woman named Galatea, who became his wife. Galatea gave birth to his daughter Paphos, after whom the city on the southern coast of Cyprus, the center of the cult of Aphrodite, began to be called.

The legendary king of Tire, the brother of Dido (Elissa), who killed her husband Sikhey in order to take possession of his wealth. Dido fled from P. to Africa, where she founded Carthage.

Pygmalion

(Greek Pygmalíön), in mythology:

king of Tire, brother of Elissa (Dido) - the legendary founder of Carthage, whose husband P. killed in order to take possession of his wealth.

Tsar and sculptor with Fr. Cyprus, who fell in love with the statue of the girl Galatea, which he sculpted, which, having heeded his prayers, was revived by Aphrodite. There are other variants of the myth. The name P. became a common noun to designate a person who fell in love with his creation. The plot was repeatedly used in literature and art (Ovid, J. J. Rousseau, B. Shaw, F. Boucher, E. M. Falcone, etc.).

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Pygmalion

Pygmalion- in Greek mythology, a sculptor who created a beautiful statue - the girl Galatea - from ivory and fell in love with his creation.

Pygmalion (King of Tyre)

Pygmalion- character ancient mythology, the image of which goes back to the real king of Tire, to whom the inscription from Nora belongs. According to Menander of Ephesus, Dido's father, reigned for 47 years, from 820 to 773 BC. e.

Son of Mutton, brother of Elissa-Dido. The story of Dido's founding of Carthage apparently reflects the process of Tire's active colonization of the Mediterranean under Pygmalion.

According to Virgil, the king of Tyre, who killed Sychaeus in order to take possession of his treasures. Following Virgil, Dante Alighieri portrays him in " Divine Comedy"as a symbol of the mortal sin of greed.

Pygmalion (play)

"Pygmalion"- one of the most famous plays Bernard Shaw, written in 1912. The originality, wit and democratic spirit of the play, reflecting the deep and poignant social problems, ensured her enormous popularity in many countries, the play is still a success today.

The play tells the story of London phonetics professor Henry Higgins, who made a bet with his friend, Colonel Pickering. According to the terms of the bet, Higgins must teach the flower girl Eliza Doolittle the pronunciation customary in six months. high society, and at a social reception be able to present her as a duchess. The title of the play is an ironic allusion to ancient myth about the sculptor Pygmalion, who created such a perfect statue of a girl that the goddess Aphrodite agreed, at the request of Pygmalion, who was in love with the image he created, to revive the statue.

For the 1938 film adaptation, Shaw wrote several major new sequences that are now usually included in English text plays. Russian translation of these important additions not yet available.

In 1956, American composer Frederick Lowe wrote the musical My Fair Lady based on the play, which also had big success. Both the film and the musical, unlike the play, end with a happy love ending.

Pygmalion (play at the Maly Theater)

"Pygmalion"- a performance by the Maly Theater based on the play of the same name by Bernard Shaw, staged in 1943. In 1957, a television version was created at the Mosfilm film studio.

Pygmalion (disambiguation)

Pygmalion

• Pygmalion was the king of Tyre, who reigned from 831-785 BC. e; son of Mattan I.
• Pygmalion is a character from ancient Greek mythology, a sculptor from the island of Cyprus who created Galatea. Dedicated to him:

:* "" - opera-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1748).

:* «» - « lyrical scenes» by Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the music of Coinet (1762, premiere - 1770).

:* "" - opera by Jiri Bend to a libretto by Friedrich Gotter after J.-J. Rousseau (1779).

:* "" - one-act opera by Luigi Cherubini (1809, Tuileries Theater).

:* "" - one-act opera by Gaetano Donizetti (1816).

:* “Pygmalion” is a play by Bernard Shaw (1912).

::* “Pygmalion” - film by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard based on a screenplay by Bernard Shaw (UK, 1938).

::* “Pygmalion” - teleplay by the Maly Theater based on the play by Bernard Shaw (1957).

::* "" - film starring Margot Kidder and Peter O'Toole (USA, 1983).

• "Pygmalion" is a French early music ensemble.

In astronomy

• (96189) Pygmalion is a near-Earth asteroid from the Amur group, discovered in 1991.
• Pygmalion is a crater on the asteroid Eros.

Pygmalion (film, 1938)

"Pygmalion"- English black and white film of 1938, a film adaptation of the comedy of the same name by Bernard Shaw. Starring Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard. The film's script was created with the active participation of Bernard Shaw himself, who wrote several additional scenes and episodes. Later, based on this script, the musical “My Fair Lady” and the 1964 film of the same name were created in 1956.

The film was a great success in many countries. In 1938 he received an Oscar for best scenario. He was nominated for the award in three more categories: best movie, best actor, best actress. The film received another award - “for best actor” in the same 1938 at the Venice Film Festival.

Pygmalion (ensemble)

Pygmalion, specializing in the performance of Baroque music. Pygmalion was founded and headed by Raphael Pichon (born in 1984) in 2006. The headquarters of the ensemble (since 2014) is located in Bolshoi Theater Bordeaux. The activities of Pygmalion are subsidized by the municipal government of Bordeaux.

Performed at famous international music festivals- Baroque music in Ambron (since 2009), Bonne Opera House (since 2011), Aix-en-Provence Opera House, Nantes Folle Journée - and at famous concert venues, incl. at the Royal Chapel of Versailles and at the National Opera of Bordeaux. Considerable attention in the repertoire of Pygmalion is given to the revival of a little-known and rarely music performed baroque. Thus, in 2016 (at the National Opera of Lorraine) the premiere of the opera “Orpheus” by L. Rossi took place.

Among the band's audio recordings, vocal and instrumental music baroque. The audio recordings have received numerous awards from critics, including the Victoire de la music (2015, for J. S. Bach's Cöthen Funeral Music, BWV 244a, in Pichon's "reconstruction"). The Pygmalion Choir was awarded the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation Prize in 2014. Since 2011, the ensemble has also performed and recorded music from the Romantic era.