Feb 8, 2020
10 min read
‘Pygmalion and Galatea’: The Metamorphosis of a Metamorphosis Myth
‘‘Myth is already enlightenment; and enlightenment reverts to mythology’’
(Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectics of Enlightenment)
- Aphrodite of Knidos
The famous sculptor Praxiteles was said to have created a statue of a nude woman so beautiful that it inspired desire in every man who saw it. His statue…
