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pygmalion and your love life

ESSAY text by ALAIN DE BOTTON artwork by DAN COLEN In Book 10 of the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses, we’re introduced to one of the world’s more curious but telling myths: a Cypriot sculptor called Pygmalion has developed a problem with women. He has seen the daughters of a local man called Propoetus refuse to […]

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