"Galatea (/ˌɡæləˈtiːə/; Greek: Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white") is a name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came ...
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to life in Greek mythology. In modern English the name usually alludes to that story.
Galatea is also the name of Polyphemus´s object of desire in Theocritus´s Idylls VI and XI and is linked with Polyphemus again in the myth of Acis and Galatea in Ovid´s Metamorphoses." - (en.wikipedia.org 30.10.2019)