Europa
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the Tyrian Europa
in the texts
The Histories
Daughter of the king of Tyre, seized by Greeks (Cretans) in retaliation for Io
Next, according to their story, some Greeks (they cannot say who) landed at Tyre in Phoenicia and carried off the king's daughter Europa.
But it is plain that this woman was of Asiatic birth, and never came to this land which the Greeks now call Europe, but only from Phoenicia to Crete and from Crete to Lycia.
But as for Europe, no men have any knowledge whether it is bounded by seas or not, or where it got its name, nor is it clear who gave the name, unless we say that the land took its name from the Tyrian Europa, having been (it would seem) before then nameless like the rest.
On the Nature of the Gods
Mythological figure carried off by Jupiter in bull form, referenced in Cotta's discussion of beauty.
But, by Hercules, I (for I will speak as I feel), much as I love myself, do not dare to say that I am more beautiful than that bull was which carried off Europa;
Stromata
Europa, the mythic princess carried from Phoenicia to Crete.
Under Sthenelus were both the kingdom of Amphictyon and the coming of Danaus to the Peloponnese, and the founding of Dardania by Dardanus, whom "first," says Homer, "the cloud-gatherer Zeus begot," and the carrying back of Europa from Phoenicia to Crete.