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Galatea (Greek myth)
In
Greek mythology
,
Galatea
was the name of the following figures:
Galatea, a
Nereid
who
loved
the
shepherd
Acis
.
Galatea, the
statue
of
a woman
created by
Pygmalion
.
Galatea,
daughter
of Eurytius, son of Sparton. Her
husband
Lamprus
wished
to have a son and
told
her to
expose
the
child
if it
turned
out to
be a girl
. So when Galatea gave
birth
to a
girl
she
asked
the gods
to
change
her
sex
, and
Leto
turned her into a
boy