See also:EUROPA (or rather, See also:EUROPE)
, in See also:Greek See also:mythology, according to See also:Homer (Iliad, xiv
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321), the daughter of See also:Phoenix or, in a later See also:story, of Agenor, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Phoenicia
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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
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:bull and carried her away from her native Phoenicia to See also:Crete, where
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Schwartz (1887–1891)
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she became the See also:mother of See also:Minos, Rhadamanthys and See also:Sarpedon
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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
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678)
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Some consider Europa to be a See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
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
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O
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Gruppe (De Cadmi Fabula, 1891) endeavours to show that the myth of Europa is only another version of the myth of Persephone
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See See also:Apollodorus iii
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I ; See also:Ovid, Metam. ii
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833; articles by Helbig in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie, and by Hild in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:des antiquites
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Fig
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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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