Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus. Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid's Metamorphoses, X, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved. In Ovid In Ovid's narrative, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides prostituting themselves (more accurately, they denied the divinity of Venus and she thus ‘reduced’ them to prostitution), he was 'not interested in women', but his statue was so fair and realistic...

:Ameinias redirects here. For the younger brother of Aeschylus, see Ameinias of Athens. Narcissus or Narkissos (), possibly derived from ναρκη (narke) meaning "sleep, numbness," in Greek mythology was a hunter from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty. He was exceptionally proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. Nemesis saw this and attracted Narcisus to a pool where he saw his own reflection in the waters and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus died. Ancient sources Se...

Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962). Early life and career Renoir was born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was also the brother of Pierre Renoir, a noted French stage a...

Sylvestro di Ganassi dal Fontego (1 January 1492 – mid-16th century) was a Venetian musician and author of two important treatises on instrumental technique. His first treatise covers recorder playing: Opera intitulata Fontegara (Venice, 1535). His second (in two volumes) is about the viola da gamba: Regola Rubertina (Venice, 1542) and Lettione Seconda (Venice, 1543). They cover both technicalities of playing as well as the subtleties of expression. There is also plenty of guidance on ornamentation - passaggi. The revival of interest in historically-aware musical performance has ...

This article is about the phonology of the Italian language. It deals with the phonology and phonetics of Standard Italian as well as with geographical variants. Vowels {|class="wikitable" |- !   ! Front ! Back |-class=nounderlines align=center ! Close | || |-class=nounderlines align=center !Close-mid | || |-class=nounderlines align=center ! Open-mid | || |-class=nounderlines align=center !Open |colspan=2| |} Notes: *In Italian there is no phonemic distinction between long and short vowels. However, vowels in stressed open syllables are long (except when word-final). *W...