Europe (daughter of Neilos)

Europe ( ancient Greek Εὐρώπη Eurṓpē ) is in Greek mythology daughter of Neilos and one of the wives of Danaos , to whom she gave birth to four daughters: Automate , Amymone , Agaue and Skaia .

After the mass wedding of the 50 daughters of Danaos with the 50 sons of Aegyptus , at which lot decided on the pairing, the daughters of Elephantis also killed their husbands on the wedding night.

literature

• Johannes Hugo Helbig : Europe 7 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1240 ( digitized version ).
• Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Europe 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, column 2324 (equated with the mistress of Zeus, column 1294).

Remarks

1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2,1,5; Johannes Tzetzes , Chiliades 7,381.