Galatea (Greek myth)

• Galatea, a Nereid who loved the shepherd Acis.
• Galatea, the statue of a woman created by Pygmalion.
• Galatea, daughter of Eurytius, son of Sparton. Her husband Lamprus wished to have a son and told her to expose the child if it turned out to be a girl. So when Galatea gave birth to a girl she asked the gods to change her sex, and Leto turned her into a boy