The mythological sculptor Pygmalion who falls in love with a statue he has made, from a poem by the Roman poet Ovid .
In Virgil 's masterpiece '' The Aeneid '', Pygmalion is the cruel-hearted brother of Dido who secretly kills Dido's husband Sychaeus because of his lust for gold.
The Pygmalion Effect , a concept in psychology describing the behavior of individuals as people expect them to behave, named after the myth of Pygmalion.
Pygmalionism (aka Statuephilia or agalmatophilia), an erotic attraction to statues or immobility.
