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November 28, 2005
Ancient and contemporary 'love'
For a project I am momentarily working on Ovid's text Pygmalion from his Metamorphosis. From a feminist perspective this story is somewhat out of bounds and to me it is a challenge to work on it.
(If you continue to read and follow the links you will stumble into some adult material, so don't say I didn't warn you.)
And looking for contemporary examples I did not only find management books speaking of the Pygmalion effect, but I also stumbled over a modern version of the story; there is one company making real size real-to-life dolls. Someone is actually putting effort in these dolls to make them appear 'alive'.
Compared to this the way Ovid put this story to words is very decent.
Posted by Renske at 11:35 UTC | permanent link