Daughter of
the Phoenician king Agenor who was kidnapped by Zeus in the shape of a bull.
After she had climbed on his back, he ran off to Crete, and she became the
mother of his children Minos and Rhadamanthus, Cretan kings and judges of
the dead.
According to Herodotus, Europa was in reality a Phoenician princess who was
kidnapped by the Greeks as a revenge for the Phoenician abduction of the Greek
princess Io.