Galatea

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Galatea is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white".

Galatea, Galathea or Gallathea may refer to:

In mythology

• Galatea, three different mythological figures from Greek mythology

In the arts

• Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, cantata by Handel
• Galatea (Raphael), or The Triumph of Galatea, a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-nymph
• Gallathea, a late sixteenth-century play by John Lyly
• Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed, an 1883 musical comedy by Henry Pottinger Stephens, W. Webster and Meyer Lutz
• Galatea, a 2009 play by Lawrence Aronovitch
• La Galatea, a sixteenth-century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes
• Galatea (novel), a 1953 novel by James M. Cain
• Galatea, a 1976 novel by Philip Pullman
• Galatea ^[ru], a 1977 ballet film with Ekaterina Maximova and Māris Liepa
• Galatea 2.2, a 1995 novel by Richard Powers
• Galatea (video game), released in 2000
• Galatea, a main figure in the Pygmalion and the Image series of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1878)
• Galatea, a major character in Pamphilus de amore, a widely-read poem from 1200
• Galatea of the Spheres, a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí

Fictional characters

• Galatea, in the manga Claymore by Norihiro Yagi
• Galatea, an android in the 2007 novel Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
• Galatea, a villain in the 1990s Japanese anime series Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
• Galatea, a supervillain appearing in Justice League Unlimited
• Galatea, a female robot in the film Bicentennial Man
• Galathea, a cow in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel Farmer Giles of Ham
• Galatea, a character in the mobile game Fate/Grand Order
• Galatea Dunkel, in the 1957 novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac

In science

• 74 Galatea, a large main belt asteroid
• Galatea, a moon of Neptune
• Galathea, a genus of squat lobsters
• Galatea, common name for plants of the genus Dieffenbachia
• Galatea, a taxonomic synonym for the plant genus Galatella

Places

• Galatea, New Zealand, a village in the North Island
• Galatea, Ohio, a community in the United States
• Mount Galatea, in the Canadian Rockies
• Galathea National Park, a national park in the Nicobar Islands, India

Ships

• List of ships named Galatea

Other uses

• Galatea (locomotive), a preserved example of the LMS Jubilee class of steam locomotive
• Galatea II a Thoroughbred racehorse
• Galatea, a type of cotton twill fabric
• Galatea AB, a Swedish beverage distributor

See also

• Galathée (disambiguation)
• Galatia (disambiguation)

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