The Ovid's Metamorphoses on Pygmalion

It was told that the existance of a sculpture made to live by the goddess Aphrodite that was named Galatea where Pygmalion fell in love with an ivory statue he had crafted with his own hands, and in answer to his prayers, the goddess unite them in marriage. The story was told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. But in contrast to the play written by George Bernard Shaw in Pygmalion where he actually instill the elements of creating new persona of a flower girl, Eliza Doolittle by Henry Higgins, a scientist of phonetics to become a woman as poised and well-spoken as a duchess. The concept of transforming a statue/ a girl into something so-called better was similar. But in the play, ironically Eliza finally follows her own path by not marrying Higgins. In Greek mythology, Galatea finally became the wife of Pygmalion. This was the major different in both story and play. Perhaps, the story within Pygmalion carries its own uniqueness and just a little adaptation being done from the Greek's version.