Step back in time to ancient Greece, where love took a most extraordinary form. In the myth of Pygmalion, the skilled sculptor whose heart yearned for a love beyond the ordinary. From a dreamy vision ...

NEW YORK — Here’s the ancient Pygmalion myth: Boy meets rock. Boy carves rock into a girl. Boy pervs on girl. Boy gets girl. And here’s George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion”: Phonetician meets flower ...

Linda: The myth of Pygmalion is told in Ovid's Metaphorphoses. Pygmalion was a gifted young sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. Pygmalion had strong misgivings about women ...

Before there was George Bernard Shaw (or My Fair Lady, for that matter) there was Rameau’s take on the myth of Pygmalion – the artist so in love with his own creation that she comes to life. The ...