Europa (consort of Zeus)
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In Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess said to have been abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull. She was the mother of the Cretan king Minos.
Europa on the back of Zeus, who has turned into a bull, in a 1st-century BC fresco from Pompeii
A statue of Europa representing Europe at Palazzo Ferreria
The birthplace of Europa, Tyre, Lebanon
The Abduction of Europa by Rembrandt, 1632
Minos
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In Greek mythology, Minos was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrint
Europa (consort of Zeus)
…Attic Greek pronunciation: ) was a Phoenician princess said to have been abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull. She was the mother of the Cretan king Minos. An early reference to Europa is in a fragment of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, discovered at Oxyrhynchus. The earliest vase-painting securely…
Minos witnesses the killing of the Minotaur on an Attic red-figure calyx-krater by the Syriskos Painter, c. 500-475 BC, National Archaeological Museum of Greece.
Mural of Minos at the National and Kapodistrain University of Athens
17th-century engraving of Scylla falling in love with Minos
A Roman mosaic from Zeugma, Commagene (now in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum) depicting Daedalus, his son Icarus, Queen Pasiphaë, and two of her female attendants