Galatea is a work of interactive fiction by Emily Short featuring a modern rendition of the Greek myth of Galatea, the sculpture of a woman which gained life.

* Galatea ( video game ), a work of interactive fiction

Emily Short is the pseudonym of an interactive fiction ( IF ) writer, perhaps best known for her debut game Galatea and her use of psychologically complex NPCs, or non-player game characters.

* Galatea ( video game ), released in 2000

The game Galatea is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2. 5 license.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun praised the depth and detail of the game, the complexities of the character design and its " masterful balance between intricacy and simplicity ", and " Galatea ’ s emotional turmoil " that is " encoded sweetly into the subtext of what ’ s going on.

Likewise, the legend serves as the inspiration for one of the Lineages, the Galatea, that appears in the White Wolf role-playing game Promethean: The Created.

** Galatea, name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion ( mythology )

* Galatea of the Spheres, a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí

* Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed, an 1883 musical comedy by Henry Pottinger Stephens, W. Webster and Meyer Lutz

* La Galatea, a 16th century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes

* Galatea, a 1953 novel by James M. Cain

* Galatea, a 1976 novel by Philip Pullman

* Galatea 2. 2, a 1995 novel by Richard Powers

* Galatea, the main figure depicted with Pygmalion in Pygmalion and the Image, a series of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones ( 1878 )

* Galatea, an android in the 2007 novel Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

* THV Galatea, two ships operated by Trinity House

Although the full story was described by Ovid, it was also mentioned by Philoxenus and Theocritus, and in Valerius Flaccus ' version of Argonautica, among the themes painted on the Argos, " Cyclops from the Sicilian shore calls Galatea back.

Polyphemus sings in Georg Friedrich Händel's popular 1718 setting of Acis and Galatea, an English language pastoral opera or masque with the libretto set by John Gay to Ovid's Metamorphosis.

* Polyphemus and Galatea depicted in statues with a golden harpsichord by Michele Todini, Rome, 1675 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Later in his career, in 1731, he played the role of Polypheme in the first public performance of Acis and Galatea, and several of Handel's Italian arias were published with English translations by Leveridge.

* Acis and Galatea, a masque by Händel, is based on the eponymous characters out of the Metamorphoses, as is Lully's opera Acis et Galatée.

Its operations are also supported by three vessels ; the two large tenders THV Patricia and THV Galatea, and the Rapid Intervention Vessel THV Alert.

In 11 Polyphemus is depicted as in love with the sea-nymph Galatea and finding solace in song: in 6 he is cured of his passion and naively relates how he repulses the overtures now made to him by Galatea.

The earliest examples were all presented as the results of divine intervention and include: The dry bones that came to life in the Book of Ezekiel ( Chapter 37 ); three-legged self-navigating tables created by the god Hephaestus ( Iliad xviii ); and the statue Galatea brought to life by the prayers of her creator Pygmalion.

After the break-up of Handel's Royal Academy in 1728, Senesino sang in Paris ( 1728 ) and Venice ( 1729 ), but was re-engaged by Handel in 1730, singing in four more new operas and in the oratorios Esther, Deborah, and, in its 1732 bilingual version, Acis and Galatea.

* John Gay ( with Alexander Pope )-Acis and Galatea ( opera by Handel )

Overpowered by Galatea, they find that by cooperating with their hard-suits ( which are primitive boomers ), they manage to form a union of humans and boomers which apparently fulfills Galatea's designs in an amicable rather than adversarial fashion, even as Priss thrusts a giant dagger through the giant Galatea's breast ( and presumably core ).

When Galatea instead married Acis, a Sicilian mortal, a jealous Polyphemus killed him with a boulder.

While still in command of the Galatea, the Duke of Edinburgh started from Plymouth on 24 January 1867 for his voyage round the world.

* HMS Galatea ( 1887 ) was an Orlando-class first-class cruiser built in Glasgow, and launched on 10 March 1887 and sold for scrapping on 5 April 1905.

* HMS Galatea ( 1914 ) was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched on 14 May 1914 at William Beardmore and Company shipyard and sold 1921.

* HMS Galatea ( 71 ) was a light cruiser of ( another ) Arethusa class, launched on 9 August 1934 at Scotts shipyard in Greenock, Scotland.

The English Baroque Soloists made their debut with him in the 1977 Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, performing Handel's Acis and Galatea on period instruments.

Mason worked on the Genom project that created boomers and plans to awaken Galatea so that she can fulfill her function of replacing humans with boomers.

In flashbacks it is revealed that Sylia's father created boomers based on Sylia's brain and DNA, particularly the human-like protoype Galatea who is almost identical in appearance to Sylia, and that Sylia consequently has a connection with all boomers.

In an usual situation, Galatea offered Priss the chance to return to Earth by allowing her to " join " ( exactly how it was never specified ) together ; Priss ' hard-suit grew wings and safely crash-landed back on Earth.

Gilbert was also producing his one-act drama, Comedy and Tragedy, and keeping an eye on a revival of his Pygmalion and Galatea at the Lyceum Theatre by Mary Anderson's company.

They meet Galatea, who tells Dean off: ” You have absolutely no regard for anybody but yourself and your kicks .” Sal realizes she is right — Dean is the “ HOLY GOOF ” — but also defends him, as “ he ’ s got the secret that we ’ re all busting to find out .” After a night of jazz and drinking in Little Harlem on Folsom Street, they depart.

A new Pullman service was introduced in 1910 as part of a drive to attract first-class paying passengers from the Great Central ; two Pullman coaches named " Mayflower " and " Galatea " were used on alternate weeks between Verney Junction, Chesham and London.

Much of the interest of the piece derives from the ambiguous nature of the player-NPC dialogue: the form of the conversation, and indeed the nature of Galatea herself, shifts depending on the focus the player places on certain aspects of the character's personality.

The player, alone, discovers Galatea displayed on a pedestal with a small information placard.

He made his Proms debut in 1997, in a performance of the Schubert Mass No. 5 in A flat major, D 678, following this with Nielsen's Springtime on Funen in 1999, the Bach St John Passion and Parsifal in 2000, Handel's Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 in 2001, Les Troyens à Carthage in 2003, Les noces in 2004, the Missa solemnis in 2005, Delius A Song of the High Hills in 2009 and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor ' Choral ' in 2011.

This was followed by HMS Galatea on 15 December.

* Galatea depicted with Polyphemus on a golden harpsichord by Michele Todini, Rome, 1675 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

His mythological subjects include The Sleeping Venus, Diana in the Bath, Danaë Reclining, Galatea on the Sea, and Europa on the Bull.