Europa

Zeus was not satisfied with his wife Hera, who was also his sister, and therefore had a lot of affairs. To keep Hera in the dark, he used not to disclose his identity and turned to , to the strangest stratagems.
Once, Zeus fell in love with Europa, the only daughter of Agenores, a shepherd in the Canaan land. Zeus instructed Hermes to push Agenores’s cattle to a seashore near Tiro, where Europa and her friends used to go for a walk.
Zeus himself mixed in the herd in the shape of a bull as white as the snow, with a strong chest and two little gem-like horns s, between which there was a single black strip.
Europa was struck by the beauty of the bull and, since he was as meek as a lamb, she started playing with him placing flowers in his mouth and hanging up garlands to his horns; at last she jumped on his back and rode to the seashore.
All of a sudden the bull threw himself in the waves and started swimming; dismayed Europa, the right hand gripping the bull's horn and the left a full basket of flowers, stared at the shore turning her head until it disappeared.
Arrived in a beach, near Gortina, Zeus turned himself into an eagle and made love with Europa in a thicket of willows by a springor, as others say, under an evergreen plane-tree. Europa gave birth to three children: Minos, Radamantous and Sarpedon.