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
Trophonius was a Greek hero or daimon or god—it was never certain which one—with a rich mythological tradition and an oracular cult at Lebadea in Boeotia, Greece.
Trofonio (Trophonius (Τροφώνιος), Historia Deorum Fatidicorum, Geneva, 1675.