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The Abduction of Europe by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Abduction of Europe by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

As the Greek myth says, Europe is the beautiful daughter of the rich Phoenician king Agenor. Once Europe, dressed in bright clothes, went out with friends to the seashore, There the girls collected flowers, drove a dance. And then on the shore she saw the great Zeus, he was struck by the beauty of the girl and decided to kidnap her. Zeus turned into a bull with golden horns, covered with golden wool, a silver stain burned on his forehead.

The golden bull came leisurely out of the forest. The girls immediately ran up to him, began to iron his golden wool. Such a beautiful and powerful bull they had never seen before. They began to dance around him round dance. Europe, too, stroked and caressed him. The bull lay down, and Europe laughed at his back, she wanted to ride on such a big good-natured animal. But the bull suddenly jumped up and rushed to the sea. Europe screamed with fear, but it was too late, the bull was racing with terrible speed, it clung to its horns so as not to fall. The girlfriends cried out, unable to help her. And the bull, running to the water, rushed into the waves and swam. And immediately the god Poseidon appeared on his golden chariot and frolicking Nereids. Poseidon, waving a trident, showed the bull the way. Soon Europe lost sight of its native shore.

Zeus was swimming for a long time on the sea, he was tired. At last the mountainous land appeared. It was the island of Crete, where the place of the dwelling of Zeus was. The bull went ashore, Europe jumped off him. And then Zeus turned into a god of Zeus, and he invited her to become his wife. Europe agreed. She stayed to live in Crete, where they had three children.

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