The moral anecdote of the " Apega of Nabis", recounted by the historian Polybius, described a supposed mechanical simulacrum of the tyrant's wife, that crushed victims in her embrace. The story of the breath of life in a statue has parallels in the examples of Daedalus, who used quicksilver to install a voice in his statues or to make them move of Hephaestus, who created automata for his workshop of Talos, an artificial man of bronze, and (according to Hesiod) of Pandora, who was made from clay at the behest of Zeus. In the story of Dido, Pygmalion is an evil king. Perhaps he drew on the lost narrative by Philostephanus that was paraphrased by Clement of Alexandria. Ovid's mention of Paphos suggests that he was drawing on a more circumstantial account than the source for a passing mention of Pygmalion in Pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheke, a Hellenic mythography of the 2nd-century AD. In some versions, Paphos was a son, and they also had a daughter, Metharme. In Ovid's narrative, they had a daughter, Paphos, from whom the city's name is derived. Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture, which changed to a woman under Aphrodite's blessing. He kissed it again, and found that the ivory had lost its hardness. When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue, and found that its lips felt warm. There, too afraid to admit his desire, he quietly wished for a bride who would be "the living likeness of my ivory girl". In time, Aphrodite's festival day came and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. Pygmalion kisses and fondles the sculpture, brings it various gifts, and creates a sumptuous bed for it. He made a sculpture of a woman that he found so perfect he fell in love with it. He determined to remain celibate and to occupy himself with sculpting. Post-classical sources name her Galatea.Īccording to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion ( / p ɪ ɡ ˈ m eɪ l i ən/ Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus, who was a king and a sculptor. Lori occasionally gives interviews where she talks about her groupie days (especially her relationship with Jimmy Page), but for the most part, she has stayed out of the public eye.Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717 ![]() she currently works as a buyer and manager at a fashion boutique in Los Angeles. After drifting out of the groupie scene, Lori held a series of low-paying jobs. although Jimmy and Lori briefly got back together in the early '80s, they never went back to the passionate love affair they had when she was a teenager. Lori was reportedly devastated and people who know her say she's never really recovered. ![]() a humiliated Lori tried to get back together with Jimmy, but he continually snubbed her. Jimmy eventually began dating Bebe Buell and he dumped Lori. Lori often traveled with Led Zeppelin on tour, but that didn't stop Jimmy from having affairs with other women. Lori and Jimmy were said to be very much in love and they carried on a relationship for the next year and a half. Pamela was said to be very bitter about being dumped by Jimmy, and Pamela considered Lori an "enemy" of hers for years. Jimmy was still seeing Pamela des Barres (his then girlfriend and also a very famous groupie) and also other women, and the relationship with Pamela reached a dramatic end when Jimmy took Pamela to a Led Zeppelin party but he left the party with Lori. Jimmy and Lori began a torrid affair, but they had to keep their relationship a secret from the public since Lori was underage and Jimmy was at risk of being arrested. one of her best friends was Sable Starr, who was the unofficial queen of the scene at the time. she reportedly lost her virginity at age 13 to David Bowie and Angie Bowie. Lori Maddox was part of the wild Hollywood teenage groupie scene in the early 1970s. her fame derived largely from her association with Page, as well as friendships with other Los Angeles notables, including Sable Starr. A little bit bout Lori: Lori Maddox (born 1958) is an ex-girlfriend of Jimmy Page.
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