Paphos (personal name) (English spelling) Paphos

Japanese: Paphos(人名)(英語表記)Paphos
Paphos (personal name) (English spelling) Paphos

…(1) A king of Cyprus. He fell in love with an ivory maiden he had made with his own hands, and prayed to the goddess Aphrodite to grant him a wife similar to the statue. The goddess then brought the statue to life, and he married her and had a son, Paphos. This story, best known from Ovid's Metamorphoses, was most recently adapted into GB Shaw's comedy Pygmalion (1913), which was then used as the basis for the musical My Fair Lady. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Paphos (person's name)" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…(1)キプロス島の王。みずからの手でつくった象牙の乙女像に恋し,これに似た女性が妻に授かるようにと女神アフロディテに祈ったところ,女神は像に生命を吹きこんだので,生身の人間となった彼女をめとり,1子パフォスPaphosを得たという。オウィディウスの《転身物語》でよく知られるこの話は,新しくはG.B.ショーの喜劇《ピグマリオン》(1913)に翻案され,次いでそれを原作としてミュージカル《マイ・フェア・レディ》が上演された。…

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