# Galatea

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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)](/source/Galatea_(mythology)), several ancient Greek mythological figures

==In the arts==
* [''Galatea'' (Raphael)](/source/Galatea_(Raphael)), or ''The Triumph of Galatea'', a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea nymph
* ''[Gallathea](/source/Gallathea)'', a late sixteenth-century play by John Lyly
* ''[Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed](/source/Galatea%2C_or_Pygmalion_Reversed)'', an 1883 musical comedy by Henry Pottinger Stephens, W. Webster and Meyer Lutz
* ''Galatea'', a 2009 play by [Lawrence Aronovitch](/source/Lawrence_Aronovitch)
* ''[La Galatea](/source/La_Galatea)'', a sixteenth-century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes
* [''Galatea'' (novel)](/source/Galatea_(novel)), a 1953 novel by James M. Cain
* ''Galatea'', a 1976 novel by [Philip Pullman](/source/Philip_Pullman)
* ''[Galatea 2.2](/source/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](/source/Ekaterina_Maximova) and [Māris Liepa](/source/M%C4%81ris_Liepa)
* [''Galatea'' (video game)](/source/Galatea_(video_game)), released in 2000
* Galatea, a main figure in the [''Pygmalion and the Image'' series](/source/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](/source/Pamphilus_de_amore), a poem from 1200
* Galatea, in the manga ''[Claymore](/source/Claymore_(manga))'' by Norihiro Yagi
* Galatea, a villain in the 1990s Japanese anime series ''[Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040](/source/Bubblegum_Crisis%3A_Tokyo_2040)''
* [Galatea](/source/Galatea_(Justice_League_Unlimited)), a supervillain appearing in ''[Justice League Unlimited](/source/Justice_League_Unlimited)''
* Galatea, a female robot in the film [''Bicentennial Man''](/source/Bicentennial_Man_(film))
* Galatea, in the mobile game ''[Fate/Grand Order](/source/Fate%2FGrand_Order)''
* Galatea Dunkel, in the 1957 novel ''[On the Road](/source/On_the_Road)'' by Jack Kerouac
* Galatea, an android in the 2007 novel ''[Soon I Will Be Invincible](/source/Soon_I_Will_Be_Invincible)'' by Austin Grossman

==Flora and fauna==
* [''Galatea'' (bivalve)](/source/Galatea_(bivalve)), a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family [Donacidae](/source/Donacidae)
* ''[Galathea](/source/Galathea)'', a genus of squat lobsters
* Galatea, common name for plants of the genus ''[Dieffenbachia](/source/Dieffenbachia)'' 
* ''Galatea'', a taxonomic synonym for the plant genus ''[Galatella](/source/Galatella)''

==Places==
* [Galatea, New Zealand](/source/Galatea%2C_New_Zealand), a village on the North Island
* [Galatea, Ohio](/source/Galatea%2C_Ohio), a community in the United States
* [Mount Galatea](/source/Mount_Galatea), in the Canadian Rockies
* [Galathea National Park](/source/Galathea_National_Park), Great Nicobar Island, India
* Galathea River, [Great Nicobar Island](/source/Great_Nicobar_Island)
* [Emden Deep](/source/Emden_Deep), also known as the Galathea Deep or Galathea Depth, a portion of the Philippine Trench in the Pacific Ocean
* [Galatea (moon)](/source/Galatea_(moon)), a moon of Neptune
* [74 Galatea](/source/74_Galatea), a large main belt asteroid

==Other uses==
* [List of ships named ''Galatea'' or ''Galathea''](/source/list_of_ships_named_Galatea)
* [''Galatea'' (locomotive)](/source/LMS_Jubilee_Class_5699_Galatea), a preserved example of the LMS Jubilee class of steam locomotive
* [Galatea II](/source/Galatea_II) a Thoroughbred racehorse
* Galatea, a type of [cotton](/source/cotton) twill fabric

==See also==
* ''[Galatea of the Spheres](/source/Galatea_of_the_Spheres)'', a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí
* [Galathée (disambiguation)](/source/Galath%C3%A9e_(disambiguation))
* [Galatia (disambiguation)](/source/Galatia_(disambiguation))
* [Galateo (disambiguation)](/source/Galateo_(disambiguation))

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