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'''Galatea''' is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white".<br />
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'''Galatea''', '''Galathea''' or '''Gallathea''' may refer to:<br />
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==In mythology==<br />
* [[Galatea (mythology)]], three different mythological figures from Greek mythology, including:<br />
** [[Galatea (mythological statue)]], the statue carved by Pygmalion that came to life<br />
** Galatea, from [[Acis and Galatea]]<br />
** Galatea, wife of [[Lamprus (mythology)]]<br />
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==In the arts==<br />
* ''[[Aci, Galatea e Polifemo]]'', cantata by Handel<br />
* [[Galatea (Raphael)|''Galatea'' (Raphael)]], or ''The Triumph of Galatea'', a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-nymph<br />
* ''[[Gallathea]]'', a late sixteenth-century play by John Lyly<br />
* ''[[Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed]]'', an 1883 musical comedy by Henry Pottinger Stephens, W. Webster and Meyer Lutz<br />
* ''Galatea'', a 2009 play by [[Lawrence Aronovitch]]<br />
* ''[[La Galatea]]'', a sixteenth-century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes<br />
* [[Galatea (novel)|''Galatea'' (novel)]], a 1953 novel by James M. Cain<br />
* ''Galatea'', a 1976 novel by [[Philip Pullman]]<br />
* ''{{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]]<br />
* ''[[Galatea 2.2]]'', a 1995 novel by Richard Powers<br />
* [[Galatea (video game)|''Galatea'' (video game)]], released in 2000<br />
* Galatea, a main figure in the [[Pygmalion and the Image Series|''Pygmalion and the Image'' series]] of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1878)<br />
* Galatea, a major character in [[Pamphilus de amore]], a widely-read poem from 1200<br />
* ''[[Galatea of the Spheres]]'', a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí<br />
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==Fictional characters==<br />
* Galatea, in the manga ''[[Claymore (manga)|Claymore]]'' by Norihiro Yagi<br />
* Galatea, an android in the 2007 novel ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'' by Austin Grossman<br />
* Galatea, a villain in the 1990s Japanese anime series ''[[Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040]]''<br />
* [[Galatea (Justice League Unlimited)|Galatea]], a supervillain appearing in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''<br />
* Galatea, a female robot in the film [[Bicentennial Man (film)|''Bicentennial Man'']]<br />
* Galathea, a cow in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel ''[[Farmer Giles of Ham]]''<br />
* Galatea, a character in the mobile game ''[[Fate/Grand Order]]''<br />
* Galatea Dunkel, in the 1957 novel ''[[On the Road]]'' by Jack Kerouac<br />
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==In science==<br />
* [[74 Galatea]], a large main belt asteroid<br />
* [[Galatea (bivalve)|''Galatea'' (bivalve)]], a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family [[Donacidae]]<br />
* [[Galatea (moon)]], a moon of Neptune<br />
* ''[[Galathea]]'', a genus of squat lobsters<br />
* Galatea, common name for plants of the genus ''[[Dieffenbachia]]'' <br />
* ''Galatea'', a taxonomic synonym for the plant genus ''[[Galatella]]''<br />
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==Places==<br />
* [[Galatea, New Zealand]], a village in the North Island<br />
* [[Galatea, Ohio]], a community in the United States<br />
* [[Mount Galatea]], in the Canadian Rockies<br />
* [[Galathea National Park]], a national park in the Nicobar Islands, India<br />
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==Ships==<br />
* [[list of ships named Galatea|List of ships named ''Galatea'']]<br />
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==Other uses==<br />
* [[LMS Jubilee Class 5699 Galatea|''Galatea'' (locomotive)]], a preserved example of the LMS Jubilee class of steam locomotive<br />
* [[Galatea II]] a Thoroughbred racehorse<br />
* Galatea, a type of [[cotton]] twill fabric<br />
* Galatea AB, a Swedish beverage distributor<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Galathée (disambiguation)]]<br />
* [[Galatia (disambiguation)]]<br />
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