Eurōpa

Eurōpa (‘broad-browed’), in Greek myth, daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre. Zeus loved her and so took the form of, or sent, a beautiful bull which swam to the sea-shore where she was playing and seemed so mild that she climbed upon its back. Thereupon it swam away with her to Crete, where to Zeus she bore Minos, Rhadamanthys, and, in post-Homeric accounts, Sarpedon. The bull became the constellation Taurus. Europa was identified with a Cretan goddess and worshipped on the island.