Galatea

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Galatea is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white", most notably referring to:

• Galatea (mythology), one of three figures of classical myth:
  • Galatea, a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus (mythology)
  • Galatea, a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea (mythology)
  • Galatea, name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion (mythology)

Galatea or Galathea may also refer to:

Art

• Galatea (Raphael), or The Triumph of Galatea, a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-nymph
• Galatea of the Spheres, a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí

Entertainment

Animation, anime and manga

• Galatea, a villain character in the 1990s anime series Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
• Galatea, a warrior character in the 2000s series Claymore (manga)
• Galatea (Justice League Unlimited), a supervillain character, an evil clone of Supergirl, first appearing in 2004
• Galatea Syndrome, a fictional disease in the 2008 manga Ningyou Kyuutei Gakudan or Grand Guignol by Kaori Yuki.

Gaming

• Galatea, a fictional planet in the 1984 Classic BattleTech wargame
• Galatea, a fictional planet in the 1997 video game Colony Wars
• GTD Galatea, a fictional carrier in the 1998 computer game Descent: FreeSpace — The Great War
• Galatea (video game), an interactive fiction work by Emily Short, released in 2000
• Galatea, one of the Lineages for characters in the 2006 role-playing game Promethean: The Created
• Galatea, the satellite that exploded just prior to the advent of the 'eruption' of superhuman Novas in the 1999 role-playing game Aberrant

Film

• Galatea Film, an Italian film production company, distributor of The Lovemakers (film)

Literature

• La Galatea, a 16th century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea, a 17th century Siglo de Oro poem by Luis de Góngora
• Galatea (novel), a 1976 work by Philip Pullman
• Galatea 2.2, a 1995 novel by Richard Powers
• Galatea, a novel by James M. Cain

Fictional characters

• Galatea Dunkel, a character in Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road
• Galatea, an android character in the 1976 novella The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
• Galatea, an android character in the 2007 novel Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

Science

Astronomy

• 74 Galatea, a large main belt asteroid discovered in 1862
• Galatea (moon), discovered orbiting Neptune in 1989

Biology

• Galathea, a genus of squat lobsters
• Galatea, common name for plants of the genus Dieffenbachia
• Galatea, honored name of the Leopard gecko

Geography

• Galatea, Greece, a village in Kozani Prefecture, Greece
• Galatea, New Zealand, a village in the North Island of New Zealand
• Mount Galatea, a peak in the Canadian Rockies
• Galathea National Park, a national park in the Nicobar Islands, India

Transport

• HMS Galatea (disambiguation), eight ships of the British Royal Navy
• THV Galatea, two ships operated by Trinity House
• Galatea (yacht), the 1886 America's Cup challenger
• Galatea, launched in 1896 as the Glenlee (ship), a training tall ship of the Spanish Navy from 1922-1969
• Galatea (locomotive), a preserved example of the LMS Jubilee class of steam locomotive

Theatre

• Gallathea, a late 16th century play by John Lyly
• Galathée, an 1852 opera by Victor Massé
• Pygmalion and Galatea, an 1871 blank-verse play by W. S. Gilbert
• Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed, an 1883 musical comedy by Henry Pottinger Stephens, W. Webster and Meyer Lutz
• Die schöne Galathee (The Beautiful Galatea), an operetta in two acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by the composer and Poly Henrion.

References

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