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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 (mythology):
- Galatea, a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus (daughter of Galatea)
- Galatea, a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea (mythology)
- Galatea, name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion (mythology)
In the arts
- Galatea (Raphael), or The Triumph of Galatea, a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-nymph
- Gallathea, a late 16th 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 16th-century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes
- Galatea, a 1953 novel by James M. Cain
- Galatea, a 1976 novel by Philip Pullman
- Galatea, 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)
Fictional characters
- Galatea (God-Eye Galatea), in Norihiro Yagi's Claymore
- Galatea Brand, in Ian Fleming's 1953 novel Moonraker
- Galatea Dunkel, in Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road
- Galatea, an android in the 2007 novel Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
- Galatea, a villain in the 1990s anime series Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
- Galatea (Justice League Unlimited), a supervillain and clone of Supergirl, first appearing in 2004
- Galatea, a female robot in Bicentennial Man (film)
In science
- 74 Galatea, a large main belt asteroid
- Galatea (moon), orbiting Neptune
- Galathea, a genus of squat lobsters
- Galatea, common name for plants of the genus Dieffenbachia
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
- HMS Galatea, eight ships of the British Royal Navy
- THV Galatea, two ships operated by Trinity House
- Galathea, the ship used in the first of the Danish Galathea expeditions, from 1845-1847
- Galatea (yacht), the 1886 America's Cup challenger
- Galatea, launched in 1896 as the Glenlee (ship), a training tall ship of the Spanish Navy from 1922–1969
- HDMS Galathea, formerly HMS Leith (U36), a survey ship of the Royal Danish Navy
Other
- 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
See also
- Galatea of the Spheres, a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí
- Galathée (disambiguation)
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