Galatea Explained
Galatea is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white".
Galatea, Galathea or Gallathea may refer to:
In mythology
- Galatea, three different mythological figures from Greek mythology
In the arts
- Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, cantata by Handel
- Galatea (Raphael), or The Triumph of Galatea, a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-nymph
- Gallathea, a late sixteenth-century play by John Lyly
- Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed, an 1883 musical comedy by Henry Pottinger Stephens, W. Webster and Meyer Lutz
- Galatea, a 2009 play by Lawrence Aronovitch
- La Galatea, a sixteenth-century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes
- Galatea (novel), a 1953 novel by James M. Cain
- Galatea, a 1976 novel by Philip Pullman
- , a 1977 ballet film with Ekaterina Maximova and Māris Liepa
- Galatea 2.2, a 1995 novel by Richard Powers
- Galatea (video game), released in 2000
- Galatea, a main figure in the Pygmalion and the Image series of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1878)
- Galatea, a major character in Pamphilus de amore, a widely-read poem from 1200
- Galatea of the Spheres, a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí
Fictional characters
In science
Places
Ships
Other uses
- Galatea (locomotive), a preserved example of the LMS Jubilee class of steam locomotive
- Galatea II a Thoroughbred racehorse
- Galatea, a type of cotton twill fabric
- Galatea AB, a Swedish beverage distributor
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