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<p>Not Exactly Published</p>
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<p>This version was discovered on Archive.org and appeared to be a book. Upon further
research, it appears as if this translation was originally published on a website and
not in a real print form. This version was translated by A.S. Kline in 2004.</p>
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<persName>Pygmalion</persName>
<note>According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Pygmalion was a king in Greek
mythology. However, in this myth, he is depicted as a
sculptor.<lb/>Source<lb/>"Pygmalion Greek Mythology." <hi rend="italics"
>Encyclopedia Britannica</hi>, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pygmalion.
Accessed 11 Feb. 2018. </note>
</person>
<person xml:id="Heliades">
<persName>Heliades</persName>
<note> According to the Encyclopedia Mythica, this refers to the seven daughters
of the sun god, Helios.<lb/>Source<lb/>"Heliades."<hi rend="italics">
Encyclopedia Mythica</hi>, https://pantheon.org/articles/h/heliades.html.
Accessed 14 Feb. 2018.</note>
</person>
<person xml:id="Venus">
<persName>Venus</persName>
<note>According to the Encyclopedia Mythica,Venus is the Roman goddess of love. In
Greek mythology, she was known as Aphrodite.ccording to the Encyclopedia
Mythica,Venus is the Roman goddess of love. In Greek mythology, she was known
as Aphrodite.<lb/>Source<lb/>"Venus." <hi rend="italics">Encyclopedia
Mythica</hi>, https://pantheon.org/articles/v/venus.html. Accessed 11 Feb.
2018.</note>
</person>
<person xml:id="Paphos">
<note>This myth deals with the person Paphos; which according to the Encyclopedia
Britannica is the daughter of Pygmalion while this translation refers to Paphos
as the son of Pygmalion.<lb/> Paphos also refers to a district in western
Cyprus where the cult of Aphrodite was created, as this was where the goddess
was said to be born.<lb/>Source<lb/>“Paphos.” <hi rend="italics"> UNESCO World
Heritage Centre</hi>, http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/79/. Accessed 14 Feb.
2018.<lb/>“Pygmalion | Greek Mythology.” <hi rend="italics">Encyclopedia
Britannica</hi>, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pygmalion. Accessed 11
Feb. 2018. </note>
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<placeName xml:id="Cyprus">Cyprus <note>Cyprus is an island in the Mediterranean
Sea. It is located to the east of Greece. In mythology, the island was named
for the goddess Aphrodite, called Venus by the Romans, who was born on the
island. <lb/>Source<lb/>Loizides, Antonios. “Cyprus.” <hi rend="italics"
>Ancient History Encyclopedia</hi>, https://www.ancient.eu/cyprus/.
Accessed 14 Feb. 2018. </note></placeName>
<placeName xml:id="Hymettus"><note>A mountain, now known as Imittos, in Greece
southeast of Athens<lb/>Source<lb/>"Heliades." <hi rend="italics"
>Encyclopedia Mythica</hi>,
https://pantheon.org/articles/h/heliades.html. Accessed 14 Feb.
2018.</note></placeName>
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<head>Bk X:243-297 Orpheus sings: Pygmalion and the statue</head>
<p>'<hi><persName ref="#Pygmalion">Pygmalion</persName></hi> had seen them, spending their
lives in wickedness, and, offended by the failings that nature gave the female heart, he
lived as a bachelor, without a wife or partner for his bed. But, with wonderful skill,
he carved a figure, brilliantly, out of snow-white ivory, no<fw>496</fw><pb/> mortal
woman, and fell in love with his own creation. The features are those of a real girl,
who, you might think, lived, and wished to move, if modesty did not forbid it. Indeed,
art hides his art. He marvels: and passion, for this bodily image, consumes his heart.
Often, he runs his hands over the work, tempted as to whether it is flesh or ivory, not
admitting it to he ivory. <choice>
<orig>he</orig>
<corr>He</corr>
</choice> kisses it and thinks his kisses are returned; and speaks to it; and holds it,
and imagines that his fingers press into the limbs, and is afraid lest bruises appear
from the pressure. Now he addresses it with compliments, now brings it gifts that please
girls, shells and polished pebbles, little birds, and many-coloured flowers, lilies and
tinted beads, and the <hi><persName ref="#Heliades">Heliades</persName></hi>'s amber
tears, that drip from the trees. He dresses the body, also, in clothing; places rings on
the fingers; places a long necklace round its neck; pearls hang from the ears, and
cinctures round the breasts. All are fitting: but it appears no less lovely,
naked.<note>In the translation by Josephine Preston in the book titled "Old Greek
Folk Stories Told Anew", the statue is refered to with female pronouns in this
section.<lb/>Source<lb/>Peabody, Josephine Preston.<hi rend="italics"> Old Greek Folk
Stories Told Anew</hi>. Toronto : Copp, Clark, 1897. Internet Archive,
http://archive.org/details/oldgreekfolkstor00peab. </note> He arranges the statue on
a bed on which cloths <fw>497</fw><pb/> dyed with <hi><ref>Tyrian<note>This is referring
more specifically to Tyrian murex. This was also known as royal or imperial
purple. It is a dye that is extracted from a shellfish called the murex. It was
originally produced in the city of Tyre which was Phoenician city. There was a
great desire for the dye due to its color range and resistance to fading.
However, it was difficult to manufacture which made it
expensive.<lb/>Source<lb/>Cartwright, Mark. “Tyrian Purple.” <hi rend="italics"
>Ancient History Encyclopedia</hi>, 21 July 2016,
https://www.ancient.eu/Tyrian_Purple/. </note></ref></hi> murex are spread, and
calls it his bedfellow, and rests its neck against soft down, as if it could feel. </p>
<p>The day of <hi><persName ref="#Venus">Venus</persName></hi>'s festival came, celebrated
throughout <hi><placeName ref="#Cyprus">Cyprus</placeName></hi>, and heifers, their
curved horns gilded, fell, to the blow on their snowy neck. The incense was smoking,
when Pygmalion, having made his offering, stood by the altar, and said, shyly: "If you
can grant all things, you gids, I wish as a bride to have..." and not daring to say "the
girl of ivory" he said "one like my ivory girl." Golden Venus, for she herself was
present at the festival, knew what the prayer meant, and as a sign of the gods' fondness
for him, the flame flared three times, and shook its crown in the air. When he returned,
he saught out the image of his girl, and leaning over the couch, kissed her. She felt
warm: he pressed his lips to her again, and also touched her breast with his hand. The
ivory yielded to his touch, and lost its hardness, altering under his fingers, as the
bees' wax of <hi><placeName ref="#Hymettus">Hymettus</placeName></hi> softens in the
sun, and is moulded, <fw>498</fw><pb/> under the thumb, into many forms, made usable by
use. The lover is stupified, and joyful, but uncertain, and afraid he is wrong,
reaffirms the fulfilment of his wishes, with his hand, again and again.</p>
<p>It was flesh! The pulse throbbed under his thumb. Then the hero, of <hi><persName
ref="#Paphos">Paphos</persName></hi>, was indeed overfull of words with which to
thank Venus, and still pressed his mouth against a mouth that was not merely a likeness.
The girl felt the kisses he gave, blushed, and raising her bashful eyes to the light,
saw both her lover and the sky. The goddess attended the marriage that she had brought
about, and when the moon's horns had nine times met at the full, the woman bore a son,
<hi><persName ref="#Paphos">Paphos</persName></hi>, from whom the island takes its
name.'</p>
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