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                             Introduction                             
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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                             
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* Galatea (mythology), three different mythological figures from Greek
mythology, including:
** Galatea (mythological statue), the statue carved by Pygmalion that
came to life
** Galatea, from Acis and Galatea
** Galatea, wife of Lamprus (mythology)


                             In the arts                              
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* 'Aci, Galatea e Polifemo', cantata by Handel
* '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
* ', 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)
* Galatea, a major character in Pamphilus de amore, a widely-read poem
from 1200
* 'Galatea of the Spheres', a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí


                         Fictional characters                         
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* Galatea, in the manga 'Claymore' by Norihiro Yagi
* Galatea, an android in the 2007 novel 'Soon I Will Be Invincible' by
Austin Grossman
* 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'
* Galathea, a cow in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel 'Farmer Giles of Ham'
* Galatea, a character in the mobile game 'Fate/Grand Order'
* Galatea Dunkel, in the 1957 novel 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac


                              In science                              
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* 74 Galatea, a large main belt asteroid
* 'Galatea' (bivalve), a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family
Donacidae
* Galatea (moon), a moon of Neptune
* '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                                
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* 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                                 
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* List of ships named 'Galatea'


                              Other uses                              
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* '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
* Galatea AB, a Swedish beverage distributor


                               See also                               
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* Galathée (disambiguation)
* Galatia (disambiguation)


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