The element of the original Myth of pugmalion remain in interpretations such as the musical My Fair Lady and the painting pygmalion and galatea is that both focus on one person trying to shape another.
Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus. Besides, Pygmalion refers to the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, 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.
