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In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a king of Cyprus who fell in love with a statue of Aphrodite. Ovid, in the Metamorphoses, invents a more sophisticated version: Pygmalion, a sculptor, makes an ivory statue representing his ideal of womanhood, then falls in love with his own creation; Venus brings it to life in answer to his prayer.1
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Smith, D.C. (1977). Introduction. In: Pygmalion. Interdisciplinary Systems Research / Interdisziplinäre Systemforschung. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5744-4_1
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