Cyprus, under the patronage of Aphrodite, and built the great temple to the goddess there. Bibliotheke, the Hellenistic compendium of myth long attributed to Apollodorus, mentions a daughter of Pygmalion named Metharme. She was the wife of Cinyras, and the mother of Adonis, beloved of Aphrodite, although Myrrha, daughter of Cinyras, is more commonly named as the mother of Adonis. It was commonly rumored in Roman times that Praxiteles's cult image of Aphrodite of Knidos in Aphrodite's temple was so beautiful that at least one admirer arranged to be shut in with it overnight. Interpretation The myth indicates that a cult image of Aphrodite was instrumental in some way in the founding myth of Paphos. It also seems axiomatic, apart from miraculous intervention, that the living representative of a cult image could be none but the chief priestess. Robert Graves gives a socio-political interpretation of the story, as a mythologized overthrow of a matrilineal cult. In his view Pygmalion, the consort of the goddess's priestess at Paphos, kept the cult image of Aphrodite as a means of retaining power during his term, after which, Graves speculates, he refused to give up the goddess's image "and that he prolonged this by marriage with another of Aphrodite's priestesses—technically his daughter, since she was heiress to the throne—who is called Metharme ("change"), to mark the innovation". William Moulton Marston drew inspiration from the Galatea and Pygmalion myth in creating his allegorical myth of Wonder Woman's clay birth, with Hippolyte being in the "Pygmalion" role sculpting her daughter Wonder Woman (as the "Galatea") from clay and given life by Aphrodite's breath. It was Marston's intention to express the creative power of a mother's love for a child and that Wonder Woman is the product of her mother's rearing, and therefore personifying much of her mother's qualities of independence, self sufficiency, strength of character, non-limiting beliefs, etc. See also Galene (mythology) List of Metamorphoses characters Galatea (moon), a moon of Neptune 74 Galatea, main-belt asteroid Galatea, New Zealand La Galatea, 1585 book by Miguel de Cervantes Gallathea or Galatea, 1588 play by John Lyly Die schöne Galathée, 1865 operetta by Franz von Suppé Pygmalion and Galatea, 1871 play by W. S. Gilbert Galatea 2.2, 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers Galatea is the name of the main flagship in the 1998 PC game Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War Galatea is the name