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♠ Euripides, Kretes fr 472 N² – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, pp. 505-6, ed. A. Nauck, 2nd ed. Leipzig 1889.
♠ Il 14.321-22 – Homer, Iliad
nor of the daughter of far-famed Phoenix, that bare me Minos and godlike Rhadamanthys. Greek Text
♠ ΣAb Il 12.292 – Scholia Ab to Homer, Iliad – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem I, pp. 427-28, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875.
Zeus, having seen Phoinix’s daughter Europa picking up flowers in a meadow with other maidens, fell in love with her, and having come down, he changed himself into a bull, and from his mouth he was breathing saffron; and having tricked Europa in this way, he lifted her up and having carried her across to Krete, he had intercourse with her. Then he gave her in marriage to Asterion, king of the Kretans. And having become pregnant, she bore three childrens: Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys. The story is found in Hesiod and Bakchylides. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) Greek Text
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♠ Hes fr 140 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) in Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 68, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
Schol. AB Hom. Il. 12 292 (i. 427; iii. 506 Dindorf)
Zeus, having seen Phoinix’s daughter Europa picking up flowers in a meadow with other maidens, fell in love with her, and having come down, he changed himself into a bull, and from his mouth he was breathing saffron; and having tricked Europa in this way, he lifted her up and having carried her across to Krete, he had intercourse with her. Then he gave her in marriage to Asterion, king of the Kretans. And having become pregnant, she bore three childrens: Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys. The story is found in Hesiod and Bakchylides. (fr. 10 Snell)
cf. schol. T ad loc. and schol. [Eur.] Rhes. 29 (ii. 327. 23 Schwartz) about Sarpedon: Hesiod as well as Hellanikos (4 F 94) say that he was son of Europa (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
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♠ Bak fr 10 SM – Bakchylides, Odes – Bacchylidis Carmina cum fragmentis, p. 88, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1970.
Schol. D=A+B Il 12 292: Zeus, having seen Phoinix’s daughter Europa picking up flowers in a meadow with other maidens, fell in love with her, and having come down, he changed himself into a bull, and from his mouth he was breathing saffron; and having tricked Europa in this way, he lifted her up and having carried her across to Krete, he had intercourse with her. Then he gave her in marriage to Asterion, king of the Kretans. And having become pregnant, she bore three childrens: Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys. The story is found in Hesiod (fr. 30 Rx. = fr. 140 M.-W.) and Bakchylides. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Hes fr 141 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) in Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 68-69, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
[And] the father [mingled with her in love] and gave a gift, a golden necklace that Hephaisos famed for his art [5] …with his [know]ing wits…bringing [it to his fath]er; and he received the gift;…to the [daughter] of illustrious Pheonix…to the slender-ankled Europa he was about to…the father of gods and men [10] …from beside the fair-haired maid. [And she bore sons] to the exceedingly mighty son of Kronos…commanders of many men, [lordly Minos] and just Rhadamanthys [and divine Sarpedon], noble and powerful… (Transl. Nick Gardner)
♠ Pherekydes 3F89 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 84, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
Paris, Cabinet des Médailles 3003: fragment from neck of relief amphora with Europa on bull
D. Steiner, “The Priority of Pots: Pandora’s pithos re-viewed,” in Mères et maternités en Grèce ancienne (2013), 211-238, fig. 2
Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 50643: Caeretan hydria with Europa on bull
Palermo, Museo Nazionale 3915: metope from “Temple Y”, Selinous, with Europa and bull
♠ Aischylos, Kares fr 99 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta3, pp. 217-21, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.
♠ Od 4.563-64 – Homer, Odyssey
the Elysian plain and the bounds of the earth will the immortals convey thee, where dwells fair-haired Rhadamanthus Greek Text
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Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, January 2024.
