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In Greek mythology, Europa (/jʊəˈroʊpə, jə-/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη Eurṓpē, Attic Greek pronunciation: ) 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. In some accounts, her mother was called Parthenope and her sister was Thrace. Europa was the mother of Dodonaeus (Dodon) by Zeus.
• Europa, second wife of Phoroneus and mother of Niobe.
• Europa, a Phoenician princess from whom the name of the continent Europe was taken. She was the lover of Zeus.
• 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. According to Hippostratus, Europe was the daughter of the river-god Nilus and begotten all the 50 daughters of Danaus. In some accounts, the later married Melia, daughter of his uncle Agenor, king of Tyre.
• Europa, daughter of the giant Tityos. She bore, beside the banks of the Cephisus, a son Euphemus to the god Poseidon.
• 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.
• Europe, a surname of Demeter.

Notes

1. Hesiod, Theogony 357
2. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 40.
3. 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.)
4. Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Dōdōne, with a reference to Acestodorus
5. Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 932
6. Apollodorus, 3.1.1–2.
7. Apollodorus, 2.1.5.
8. Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.37 p. 370-371
9. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Notes on Book 3.1689
10. Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.45; Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.217-222; Hyginus, Fabulae 14
11. Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
12. Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 6.21
13. Pausanias, 9.39.4

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• 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.
• Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.
• Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theoi.com
• 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
• Tzetzes, John, Lycophronis Alexandra. Vol. II: Scholia Continens, edited by Eduard Scheer, Berlin, Weidmann, 1881. Internet Archive.

• Set index articles on Greek mythology
• Oceanids
• Princesses in Greek mythology
• Queens in Greek mythology
• Mythology of Argolis
• Libya in Greek mythology