1. (Europa. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.130).
"Ye coasts, pray tell my loving father that Europa has left her native land, seated upon a bull, my ravisher, my sailor, and as I think, my bed-fellow."
(Europa. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.130).

2. ETYMOLOGY
“Europe” (eurus), "wide, broad" and "eye, face, countenance". 
Broad has been an epithet of Earth herself in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion.
It is where the name of the continent, and Jupiter’s moon came from.

3. FAMILY Daughter of Agenor, the Phoenician King of Tyre
The Syracusan poet Moschus] makes her mother Queen Telephassa ("far-shining")
Other sources, such as the Iliad, claim that she is the daughter of Phoenix, Agenor's son, the "sun-red“.
She had two brothers, Cadmus, who brought the alphabet to mainland Greece, and

4.  Cilix who gave his name to Cilicia in Asia Minor.
Minos,  Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon – sons fathered by Zeus whom became the three judges of the Underworld when they died.
 She married Asterion (Asterius) and became mother (or step-mother) of his daughter Crete.

5. FAMILY TREE

6. ZEUS AND EUROPE LOVE STORY
One night Europe dreamt that the continent of Asia and the other nameless continent across the water appeared before her in the shape of women and quarreled about who was going to own her.
“Europe is mine” claims Asia “for I gave her birth”.

7. “She has been yours until now but it is the will of Zeus that I have her for my own” said the other continent.
Europe woke up then later on, she went to play in a blooming meadow.
When Zeus saw her, he instantly overwhelmed with her beauty, and sought to seduce her. Zeus hatched a plan that saw him transform himself into a perfect white bull.

8. DESCRIPTION FROM EDITH HAMILTON’S MYTHOLOGY
“Not such a one as you might see in a stall or grazing in a field, but one beautiful beyond al bulls that ever were , bright chestnut in color, with a silver circle on his brow and horns like the crescent of the young moon.”
DESCRIPTION FROM EDITH HAMILTON’S MYTHOLOGY

9. “For surely he will bear us on his back, He is so mild and dear and gentle to behold, He is not like a bull, but like a good, true, man, Except he cannot speak.”

10. Zeus as a white bull allowed the women to pet him
Zeus as a white bull allowed the women to pet him. Zeus laid down Europa’s feet and seem to show her his broad back, and cried to the others to come with her and mount in.
Whereupon the bull - actually the god Zeus in disguise - took off at a trot and dove into the sea. Europa was carried off to the island of Crete, where she became the mother of King Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys.

11. THE SEARCH FOR EUROPA
When Europa disappeared, Agenor sent out his sons in search of her.
Cilix, ended up in Cilicia in Asia Minor, a region called after him, where he became king after giving up the search.

12. Phoenix set out for Africa, and the Africans were called Phoenicians.
Cadmus, went with his mother Telephassa to Thrace, before coming to Boeotia, where he found the city of Cadmea, which was later called Thebes.

13. When he found the city of Thebes in Greece, he gave her Europa’s name in the continent to honor her.
So the dream came true. The name Europe is derived from her.

14. EUROPA MARIES
Europe later on married Asterion, son of Tectamus, son of Dorus, son of Hellen, son of Deucalion, the man who survived the flood.
The king of Crete, and so she became the first queen of Crete.

15. FACTS ABOUT THE MYTH
The tales of Greek myth also tell of how Zeus went on to create the constellation Taurus in remembrance of the original white bull.
The white bull also appear in the Greek heroes.
Whoever made the myth, must the know the shape of Europe because it is shaped as a bull with someone riding on it, the same as the story.