ΠΥΓΜΑΛΙΩΝ, πυγμαλιων
PYGMALIŌN, pygmaliōn
Sounds Like: poog-mah-LEE-ohn
Translations: Pygmalion
From the root: ΠΥΓΜΑΛΙΩΝ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: Pygmalion was a mythological king of Cyprus, famous for sculpting a statue of a woman so beautiful that he fell in love with it. The goddess Aphrodite brought the statue to life, and Pygmalion married her. The name is used to refer to this specific figure.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:64
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 18:125
From the same root
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