[1] A considerable fragment of the _Antiope_ was discovered in Egypt
in the latter part of the 19th century; ed. J.P. Mahaffy in vol.
viii. of the _Cunningham Memoirs_ (Dublin, 1891); and quite recently
fragments, probably from the _Hypsipyle_, the _Phaethon_, and the
_Cretans_ (see _Berliner Klassikertexte_, v. 2, 1907).
[2] (Originally simply _Heracles_, the addition _Mainomenos_ being
due to the Aldine ed.)
[3] Introduction to the _Electra_ of Sophocles, p. xiii., in _Catena
Classicorum_, 2nd ed.
[4] (According to Karl Krumbacher, _Gesch. der byz. Lit._, it is an
11th-century production of unknown authorship.)
[5] See also a clear account in the preface to vol. iii. of Paley's
edition.
[6] New ed. by E. Schwartz (1887-1891).
EUROCLYDON (Gr. [Greek: euros], east wind; [Greek: klydon], wave), a
stormy wind from the N.E. or N.N.E. in the eastern Mediterranean. Where
the Authorized Version of the Bible (Acts xxvii. 14) mentions
_euroclydon_, the Revised Version, taking the reading [Greek:
eurakylon], has _euraquilo_, or north-easter. The word is sometimes used
for the Bora (q.v.).
EUROPA (or rather, EUROPE), in Greek mythology, according to Homer
(_Iliad_, xiv. 321), the daughter of Phoenix or, in a later story, of
Agenor, king of Phoenicia. The beauty of Europa fired the love of Zeus,
who approached her in the form of a white bull and carried her away from
her native Phoenicia to Crete, where she became the mother of Minos,
Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon. She was worshipped under the name of Hellotis
in Crete, where the festival Hellotia, at which her bones, wreathed in
myrtle, were carried round, was held in her honour (Athenaeus xv. p.
678). Some consider Europa to be a moon-goddess; others explain the
story by saying that she was carried off by a king of Crete in a ship
decorated with the figure-head of a bull. O. Gruppe (_De Cadmi Fabula_,
1891) endeavours to show that the myth of Europa is only another version
of the myth of Persephone.
See Apollodorus iii. 1; Ovid, _Metam._ ii. 833; articles by Helbig in
Roscher's _Lexikon der Mythologie_, and by Hild in Daremberg and
Saglio's _Dictionnaire des antiquites_. Fig. 26 in the article GREEK
ART (archaic metope from Palermo) represents the journey of Europa
over the sea on the back of the bull.
EUROPE, the smallest of those principal divisions of the land-surface of
the globe which are usually distinguished by the conventional name of
continents.