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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
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 bull and carried her away from her native Phoenicia to Crete, where 1 New ed. by E. Schwartz (1887-1891). EUROPE •he became the mother of Minos, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon. She WM worshipped under the name of Hcllotis in Crete, where the festival Hellotia, at which her bo…
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