<!----------------------------------------------------------------------> <!-- From MoS:DAB: use ONE LINK per entry, SHORT descriptions. --> <!-- AVOID: piping links, external links, redlinks with little potential, full sentences, and references --> <!----------------------------------------------------------------------> {{wiktionary|galatea}} {{TOC_right}} '''Galatea''' is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white".
'''Galatea''', '''Galathea''' or '''Gallathea''' may refer to:
==In mythology== * Galatea (mythology), several ancient Greek mythological figures
==In the arts== * ''Galatea'' (Raphael), or ''The Triumph of Galatea'', a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea nymph * ''Gallathea'', a late sixteenth-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 sixteenth-century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes * ''Galatea'' (novel), a 1953 novel by James M. Cain * ''Galatea'', a 1976 novel by Philip Pullman * ''Galatea 2.2'', a 1995 novel by Richard Powers * ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Galatea (film)|ru|3=Галатея (фильм-балет)|lt=Galatea|vertical-align=sup}}'', a 1977 ballet film with Ekaterina Maximova and Māris Liepa * ''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, a major character in Pamphilus de amore, a poem from 1200 * Galatea, in the manga ''Claymore'' by Norihiro Yagi * Galatea, a villain in the 1990s Japanese anime series ''Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040'' * Galatea, a supervillain appearing in ''Justice League Unlimited'' * Galatea, a female robot in the film ''Bicentennial Man'' * Galatea, in the mobile game ''Fate/Grand Order'' * Galatea Dunkel, in the 1957 novel ''On the Road'' by Jack Kerouac * Galatea, an android in the 2007 novel ''Soon I Will Be Invincible'' by Austin Grossman
==Flora and fauna== * ''Galatea'' (bivalve), a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family Donacidae * ''Galathea'', a genus of squat lobsters * Galatea, common name for plants of the genus ''Dieffenbachia'' * ''Galatea'', a taxonomic synonym for the plant genus ''Galatella''
==Places== * Galatea, New Zealand, a village on the North Island * Galatea, Ohio, a community in the United States * Mount Galatea, in the Canadian Rockies * Galathea National Park, Great Nicobar Island, India * Galathea River, Great Nicobar Island * Emden Deep, also known as the Galathea Deep or Galathea Depth, a portion of the Philippine Trench in the Pacific Ocean * Galatea (moon), a moon of Neptune * 74 Galatea, a large main belt asteroid
==Other uses== * List of ships named ''Galatea'' or ''Galathea'' * ''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) * Galatia (disambiguation) * Galateo (disambiguation)
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