Europa

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.1

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Europa)

Life events

Zeus abducted Europa in bull form and conveyed her across the sea to Crete.(Apollodorus, Library 3.1 · 📍 Crete)
- With: Zeus
- “Zeus loved her, and turning himself into a tame bull, he mounted her on his back and conveyed her through the sea to Crete .”
Europa bore Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys to Zeus.(Apollodorus, Library 3.1 · 📍 Crete)
- With: Minos Sarpedon Rhadamanthys
- “There Zeus bedded with her, and she bore Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys;”

parent: Agenor “Agenor went to Phoenicia , married Telephassa, and begat a daughter Europa and three sons, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix.”
parent: Telephassa “With them her mother, Telephassa, and Thasus, son of Poseidon, or according to Pherecydes, of Cilix, went forth in search of her.”
parent: Phoenix “But some say that Europa was a daughter not of Agenor but of Phoenix.”
courtship with Zeus “Zeus loved her, and turning himself into a tame bull, he mounted her on his back and conveyed her through the sea to Crete .”
married with Asterius (prince of the Cretans) “Now Asterius, prince of the Cretans, married Europa and brought up her children.”
child: Minos “There Zeus bedded with her, and she bore Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys;”
child: Sarpedon “There Zeus bedded with her, and she bore Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys;”
child: Rhadamanthys “There Zeus bedded with her, and she bore Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys;”

with Cadmus (Cadmus went to Delphi to inquire about Europa.) “he came to Delphi to inquire about Europa”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.