Shaw's Pygmalion draws on which tradition's myth of a sculptor who fell in love with his ivory statue?
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Correct answer: B. Greek
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The Greek myth of Pygmalion of Cyprus, whose statue Aphrodite brings to life, best known through Ovid's Metamorphoses X. The statue was later named Galatea.
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