EUROPA (or rather, EUROPE)
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EUROPA (or rather, EUROPE) , in Greek mythology, according to Homer (Iliad, xiv. 321), the daughter of Phoenix or, in a later story, of Agenor, king of Phoenicia. The beauty of Europa fired the love of Zeus, who approached her in the form of a white See Also: - WHITE
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- WHITE,
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- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
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bull and carried her away from her native Phoenicia to Crete , where
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she became the mother of Minos , Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon. She was worshipped under the name of Hellotis in Crete , where the festival Hellotia, at which her bones, wreathed in myrtle, were carried round, was held in her honour (Athenaeus xv. p. 678). Some consider Europa to be a moon-goddess; others explain the story by saying that she was carried off by a king of Crete in a ship decorated with the figure-head of a bull . O. Gruppe (De Cadmi Fabula, 1891) endeavours to show that the myth of Europa is only another version of the myth of Persephone.
See Apollodorus iii. I ; Ovid , Metam. ii. 833; articles by Helbig in Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie, and by Hild in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquites. Fig. 26 in the article GREEK ART (archaic metope from Palermo ) represents the journey of Europa over the sea on the back of the bull.
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