"" is not a thing to be defined,
but rather the name of a character from ancient mythology. According to Ovid's
Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a sculptor who carved the image of a woman so
beautiful that he fell in love with her and pleaded with Venus to turn the statue into a real
woman. Venus was touched by his plea and granted his wish.
later used
Pygmalion as the title of his book about the transformation of a young
Cockney flowergirl into a highbrow woman of British society through the efforts of a linguist by
the name of Henry Higgins. The play was later popularized as the musical and movie, My
Fair Lady.
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