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EUROPA (or rather, EUROPE)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 907 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUROPA (or rather, See also:EUROPE)  , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, according to See also:Homer (Iliad, xiv . 321), the daughter of See also:Phoenix or, in a later See also:story, of Agenor, See also:king of See also:Phoenicia . The beauty of See also:Europa fired the love of See also:Zeus, who approached her in the See also:form of a See also:white See also:bull and carried her away from her native Phoenicia to See also:Crete, where ' New ed. by E . Schwartz (1887–1891) . she became the See also:mother of See also:Minos, Rhadamanthys and See also:Sarpedon . She was worshipped under the name of Hellotis in Crete, where the festival Hellotia, at which her bones, wreathed in See also:myrtle, were carried See also:round, was held in her See also:honour (See also:Athenaeus xv. p . 678) . Some consider Europa to be a See also:moon-goddess; others explain the story by saying that she was carried off by a king of Crete in a See also:ship decorated with the figure-See also: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 See also:Apollodorus iii . I ; See also:Ovid, Metam. ii .

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Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie, and by Hild in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:des antiquites . Fig . 26 in the See also:article GREEK See also:ART (archaic See also:metope from See also:Palermo) represents the See also:journey of Europa over the See also:sea on the back of the bull .

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