Around the bull dance the denizens of the deep.
Europa, apparently unperturbed and finely dressed, adjusts her veil in a bridal gesture. It is the sea voyage between Tyre and Crete that the artist illustrates. There she bore to Zeus a number of sons, most famously Minos, king of Crete. He disguised himself in the form of a bull (or, as some versions relate, sent a bull), who attracted her attention and managed to carry her off across the sea to Crete. Europa, daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre, was picking flowers in a meadow one spring morning when she was noticed by Zeus.
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