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In Greek mythology, Europa (/jʊəˈroʊpə, jə-/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη Eurṓpē, Attic Greek pronunciation: [eu̯.rɔ̌ː.pɛː]) or Europe is the name of the following figures:
- Europa, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.[1][2] In some accounts, her mother was called Parthenope and her sister was Thrace.[3] Europa was the mother of Dodonaeus (Dodon) by Zeus.[4]
- Europa, second wife of Phoroneus and mother of Niobe.[5]
- Europa, a Phoenician princess from whom the name of the continent Europe was taken. She was the lover of Zeus.[6]
- Europe, a queen in her country and one of the many consorts of Danaus, king of Libya. She conceived four of the Danaïdes namely: Amymone, Automate, Agave and Scaea. These women wed and slayed their cousin-husbands, sons of King Aegyptus of Egypt and Argyphia during their wedding night.[7] According to Hippostratus, Europe was the daughter of the river-god Nilus and begotten all the 50 daughters of Danaus.[8] In some accounts, the later married Melia, daughter of his uncle Agenor, king of Tyre.[9]
- Europa, daughter of the giant Tityos. She bore, beside the banks of the Cephisus, a son Euphemus to the god Poseidon.[10][11]
- Europe, an Athenian maiden who was the daughter of Laodicus. She was sent by her people to Crete. as one of the sacrificial victims of Minotaur.[12]
- Europe, a surname of Demeter.[13]
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 357
- ^ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 40.
- ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 894; Andron of Halicarnassus fr. 7 Fowler = FGrHist 10 F 7 (Fowler 2000, p. 42; Fowler 2013, p. 13; Bouzek and Graninger, p. 12. Fowler 2013, p. 15, calls Parthenope, "elsewhere variously a Siren, a daughter of Ankaios, and a paramour of Herakles" an ad hoc invention.)
- ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Dōdōne, with a reference to Acestodorus
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 932
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.1.1–2.
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.5.
- ^ Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.37 p. 370-371
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Notes on Book 3.1689
- ^ Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.45; Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.217-222; Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- ^ Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- ^ Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 6.21
- ^ Pausanias, 9.39.4