One day, with a bit of money found on the street, Galatea and Paphos set off for the countryside in secret, but they are too easily identifiable and found soon after. Galatea is a short story by Miller that dives into the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea from the perspective of Galatea, the former statue brought to life. Le illustrazioni fanno veramente la differenza nella lettura e aumentano la carica emotiva già molto intensa. For more books like Galatea, you can’t go wrong with Madeline Miller’s two bestselling novels, Circe and The Song of Achilles. Her second novel Circe, however, was at a completely different level: it was simply fantastic in every way.

This short story from The Song of Achilles author Madeline Miller is a powerful reimagining of Ovid’s Pygmalion, in which a sculptor falls in love with a woman he has carved out of ivory and who is, as Miller tells it, literature’s first “incel”. The first time she was unsuccessful; the second time Pygmalion died in pursuit of her, while her own fate is enigmatic. From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of THE SONG OF ACHILLES and CIRCE , an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea.Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. This is a compelling and highly symbolic feminist retelling of an Ancient Greek story that I recommend most highly. I loved the authors note at the end which explained her inspiration from Pygmalion - a story referred to by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. She is brave, clever, and grandly terrible, worth of Greek myth and the empowerment we want for her.

Strange and with a beauty that could only have come from the gods, her husband kept her hidden inside as much as he could.In Ovid’s telling, Pygmalion is a king and sculptor who carves a statue of a woman out of ivory and falls in love with the statue. The feminist light she shines on these events never distorts their original shape; it only illuminates details we hadn't noticed before. As a reader you can’t help but feel sorry for Galatea who never had any say on her life from the moment Pygmalion carved her and you can see how she suffers. I love how independent she is and how she thinks of her daughter before herself, while the sculptor thinks only of himself.