Pygmalion
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
that Cyprian
in the texts
Protrepticus
Cyprian who fell in love with and physically united with an ivory statue of Aphrodite.
Thus that Cyprian, Pygmalion, fell in love with an ivory statue;
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Mythological sculptor whose statue was brought to life, invoked in an analogy about loving a constitution debased by precedents.
Had Pygmalion’s beautiful statue, after it was animated, been seduced to produce bastards, would he have loved her the better for it?