Pygmalion was so disappointed by the imperfections of the opposite sex that he decided to sculpt a beautiful female statue out of ivory representing his ideal of womanhood. Venus was very angry because the Cypriot women weren’t worshiping) her enough and so she punished them with making them lose their sense of shame. The Roman poet Ovid invented in his “Metamorphoses” another version: Pygmalion was a very talented sculptor. Both brought gifts to her altar as long as they lived. They soon got married, and Pygmalion didn’t forget to thank Aphrodite for his good fortune. When the sculptor returned home he found it alive and threw himself at her feet. She was delighted when she saw the sculpture and so she brought it to life. When Aphrodite heard him, she went to the home of he sculptor to see what all the fuss was about. Pygmalion went to the temple of Aphrodite and prayed for a wife as gorgeous as the statue. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was king of Cyprus and fell in love with a statue of the goddess Aphrodite. Bernhard Shaw takes the title of his play from a myth.
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