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Pygmalion Essay How Does Shaw Use the Ovid Myth and Cinderella Story to Tell a Modern Story? Ovid wrote his tale of Pygmalion in AD8. It told the story of how the King of Cyprus sculptor, vowed never to marry a woman because in his eyes, they were all flawed. He carved an ivory statue of his ideal woman and it was so beautiful that he fell in love with it. He doted on it and pleaded to Venus, Goddess of Love, to find him a woman just like the statue. One day he returned home to dote on the statue, having returned from the feast of Aphrodite, and before his eyes it transformed into a living woman. He was overjoyed with the love she showed to him. He called her Galatea and together they bore a son called Paphos, whose name is given to the sacred city in Cyprus. Ovid...

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