Ovid’s Metamorphoses #065/111: “Pygmalion”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 10.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 52s

What it’s “about”: Wow, Pygmalion goes full Mary Sue, with the help of Venus

Words I didn’t know: None

Quotable quotes: 

“Pygmalion knew these women all too well; 

Even if he closed his eyes, his instincts told him 

He’d better sleep alone. He took to art, 

Ingenious as he was, and made a creature 

More beautiful than any girl on earth, 

A miracle of ivory in a statue, 

So charming that it made him fall in love.

AND

Pygmalion, half-dazed, lost in his raptures, 

And half in doubt, afraid his senses failed him, 

Touched her again and felt his hopes come true, 

The pulse-beat stirring where he moved his hands.

AND

How it lands to my eco-sensibility: xx

Obvious allusions, ways it was used (that I am aware of already) : Oh, Bernard Shaw, My Fair Lady, Keeper of Traken etc etc

What I know I didn’t ‘get’: xx

In Greek mythology, the Heliades (Ancient Greek: Ἡλιάδες, lit. ’daughters of the sun’; /hiːˈlaɪ.ədiːz/, hee-LYE-ə-deez) were the daughters of Helios and Clymene, an Oceanid nymph. They were also called Phaethontides^[1] (Ancient Greek: Φαεθοντίδες, lit. ’daughters of Phaethon’), due to “Phaethon” being a common epithet for Helios.

To my knowledge, who’s used it why/how (RACC): xx

Further research questions: xx

Anything else: xx