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-godNilus 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]
^Andron of Halicarnassusfr. 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.)
John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theoi.com
Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theoi.com
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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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-godNilus 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]
^Andron of Halicarnassusfr. 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.)
John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theoi.com
Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theoi.com
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.