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Pygmalion (; , ''gen''.: Πυγμαλίωνος) is a legendary figure of Cyprus. Though ''Pygmalion'' is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name ''Pumayyaton'',〔See Pygmalion of Tyre.〕 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== 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",〔Morford, Mark (2007). "Classical Mythology". Oxford University Press, p. 184〕 but his statue was so fair and realistic that he fell in love with it. In time, Aphrodite's festival day came, and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. There—too scared to admit his desire—he quietly wished for a bride who would be "the living likeness of my ivory girl". When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm. He kissed it again, and found that the ivory had lost its hardness. Aphrodite had granted Pygmalion's wish. Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture changed to a woman under Aphrodite's blessing. In Ovid's narrative, they had a son, Paphos, from whom the city's name is derived. One translation reads as follows: A lovely boy was born; In some versions, they also had a daughter, Metharme.〔Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheke'', iii.14.3.〕 Ovid's mention of Paphos suggests that he was drawing on a more circumstantial account〔The Greek sources of Ovid's tale are fully discussed at Galatea.〕 than the source for a passing mention of Pygmalion in Pseudo-Apollodorus' ''Bibliotheke'', a Hellenic mythography of the 2nd-century AD.〔''Bibliotheke'', iii.14.3 simply mentions "Metharme, daughter of Pygmalion, king of Cyprus."〕 Perhaps he drew on the lost narrative by Philostephanus that was paraphrased by Clement of Alexandria.〔Clement, '' Exhortation to the Greeks'', 4: "So the well-known Pygmalion of Cyprus fell in love with an ivory statue; it was of Aphrodite and was naked. The man of Cyprus is captivated by its shapeliness and embraces the statue. This is related by Philostephanus".〕 ''Pygmalion'' is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name ''Pumayyaton'', and figures in legend of Paphos in Cyprus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pygmalion (mythology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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