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Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Asia and Africa.
- Europe (Disambiguation)
Europa (Greek myth), or Europe, several figures in Greek...
- Ethnic Groups in Europe
Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of...
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- Europa (consort of Zeus)
Europa on the back of Zeus turned into a bull. A fresco at...
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The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and...
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Europa / jʊˈroʊpə / ⓘ, or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter. It is also the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System.
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Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē) contains the elements εὐρύς (eurus), "wide, broad" and ὤψ/ὠπ-/ὀπτ- (ōps/ōp-/opt-) "eye, face, countenance". Broad has been an epithet of Earth herself in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion. It is common in ancient Greek mythology and geography to identify lands or rivers with female figures. Thus, Europa is first u...
Sources differ in details regarding Europa's family, but agree that she is Phoenician, and from an Argive lineage that ultimately descended from the princess Io, the mythical nymph beloved of Zeus, who was transformed into a heifer. She is generally said to be the daughter of Agenor, the Phoenician King of Tyre; the Syracusan poet Moschus makes her...
The Dictionary of Classical Mythology explains that Zeus was enamoured of Europa and decided to seduce or rape her, the two being near-equivalent in Greek myth. He transformed himself into a tame white bull and mixed in with her father's herds. While Europa and her helpers were gathering flowers, she saw the bull, caressed his flanks, and eventuall...
Astarte and Europa
In the territory of Phoenician Sidon, Lucian of Samosata (2nd century AD) was informed that the temple of Astarte, whom Lucian equated with the moon goddess, was sacred to Europa: 1. There is likewise in Phœnicia a temple of great size owned by the Sidonians. They call it the temple of Astarte. I hold this Astarte to be no other than the moon-goddess. But according to the story of one of the priests this temple is sacred to Europa, the sister of Cadmus. She was the daughter of Agenor, and on...
Interpretation
There were two competing myths relating how Europa came into the Hellenic world, but they agreed that she came to Crete (Kríti), where the sacred bull was paramount. In the more familiar telling she was seduced by the god Zeus in the form of a bull, who breathed from his mouth a saffron crocus and carried her away to Crete on his back—to be welcomed by Asterion,[note 6] but according to the more literal, euhemerist version that begins the account of Persian-Hellene confrontations of Herodotus...
Europa provided the substance of a brief Hellenistic epic written in the mid-2nd century BCE by Moschus, a bucolic poet and friend of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, born at Syracuse.[note 9] In Metamorphoses Book II, the poet Ovidwrote the following depiction of Jupiter's seduction: His picturesque details belong to anecdote ...
Europa velificans, "her fluttering tunic… in the breeze" (mosaic, Zeugma Mosaic Museum)The Rape of Europa by Titian(1562)The Rape of Europa by François Chauveau(1650)The Rape of Europa by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre(1750)Continent
The name Europe, as a geographical term, was used by Ancient Greek geographers such as Strabo to refer to part of Thrace below the Balkan mountains. Later, under the Roman Empire the name was given to a Thracian province. Thrace or Thraike in Greek mythology, was the sister of a water nymph named Europa.[circular reference]Europa was also a surname given to the earth mother goddess Demeter. It is derived from the Greek word Eurōpē (Εὐρώπη) in all Romance languages, Germanic languages, Slavic...
Moon of Jupiter
The invention of the telescope revealed that the planet Jupiter, clearly visible to the naked eye and known to humanity since prehistoric times, has an attendant family of moons. These were named for male and female lovers of the god and other mythological persons associated with him. The smallest of Jupiter's Galilean moonswas named after Europa.
Primary sources
1. Isidore, Etymologiae xiv.4.1 2. Herodotus, The Histories, Book 1.2 3. Eusebius, Chronicon, 47.7–10, 25, 53.16–17, 55.4–5 4. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 862, translation by A.D. Melville (1986), p. 50 1. 1.1. Metamorphoses, ii.833-iii.2, vi.103–107
Secondary sources
1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke, III, i, 1–2 2. Apollodorus, The Library of Greek Mythology (Oxford World's Classics), translated by Robin Hard, Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-283924-1 3. Graves, Robert, (1955) 1960. The Greek Myths 4. D'Europe à l'Europe, I. Le mythe d'Europe dans l'art et la culture de l'antiquité au XVIIIe s.(colloque de Paris, ENS – Ulm, 24–26.04.1997), éd. R. Poignault et O. Wattel — de Croizant, coll. Caesarodunum, n° XXXI bis, 1998. 5. D'Europe à l'Europe,...
Europa on the Greek euro coinof €2Warburg Institute Iconographic Database (ca 250 images of Europa) Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback MachineEuropa es un continente ubicado enteramente en el hemisferio norte y mayoritariamente en el hemisferio oriental. Los límites de Europa están situados en la mitad occidental del hemisferio norte, limitada por el océano Ártico en el norte, hasta el mar Mediterráneo por el sur. Por el oeste, llega hasta el océano Atlántico.
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. [8] [9] The Union has a total area of 4,233,255 km 2 (1,634,469 sq mi) and an estimated total population of over 449 million.
Europa ist ein Erdteil, der sich über das westliche Fünftel der eurasischen Landmasse erstreckt. Geographisch ist Europa ein Subkontinent, der mit Asien zusammen den Kontinent Eurasien bildet. Der Begriff „Europa“ bezieht sich ebenfalls auf historische, künstlerische, politische, wirtschaftliche, rechtliche oder ideelle Aspekte.
Europa (Seville Metro), Seville, Spain; a station on the Seville Metro. Europa City, Paris, France; a planned development. Europa Cliffs, Alexander Island, Antarctica. Europa Island, a small island in the Mozambique Channel which is a possession of France.
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