Pygmalion2.0035

Pygmalion2.0035_Percy

OGCMA s.v. "Pygmalion"
Classical Sources:
Ovid Met. 10.243-98
Apollodorus Libr. 3.14.3

Benjamin Percy. "The Dummy." Short story. Found in XO Orpheus: 50 New Myths. Pemguin Books. New York: 2013.

In XO Orpheus: 50 New Myths, the short story is introduced as follows: "She was pretty enough for a man. That's what people said about her. Short feathery hair. Shovel of a jaw. Eyes that seemed to squint with no sun."

Image: Headshot of Benjamin Percy.

Slide by CB

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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