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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 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 bull and carried her away from her native Phoenicia to 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 round, was held in her honour (See also: Athenaeus xv. p
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678)
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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
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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 ; Ovid, Metam. ii
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833; articles by Helbig in Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie, and by Hild in Daremberg and Saglio's DictionnaireSee also: des antiquites
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Fig
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26 in the article GREEK See also: ART (archaic See also: metope from Palermo) represents the journey of Europa over the See also: sea on the back of the bull
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