Talk:Europa (consort of Zeus)

message: In the reference list, Pseudo-Apollodoros is a red link.  Our disambiguation page for Apollodoros has no page to point to that would define him.  There is enough info sitting around in WP to sort this out.  Given enough patience, a person could use catalog.loc.gov or www.perseus.tufts.edu to find out the best official way of referring to this person.  He is certainly notable!  EdJohnston 22:25, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Pseudo-Apollodoros]] needs an article 

message: The article states that Homer does not mention Europa. Yet, it also asserts that she's mentioned in the Illiad as "the daughter of Agenor's son." Since the Illiad is traditionally attributed to Homer, isn't this self-contradictory? 24.69.166.95 20:04, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oop. Not the first error in Wikipedia, either. --Wetman 07:28, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

text: So which is correct?  Also, the depicted Argive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeans) genealogy tree has Europa as the daughter of Agenor, and the sister of Phoenix.  If the Iliad states she's the "daughter of Agenor's son," (does it really?) she should be placed accordingly. Mollynet (talk) 15:36, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: Aren't the two names, for the girl and the continent, separate, i. e. two names that evolved into the same for different reasons? See the etymology in Europe  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexlykke (talk • contribs) 11:59, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Continent 

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message: User:Varlaam, a "Senior Editor" who does in fact know better, changed all the BCE dates to BC last July, and falsified the record by switching the commented-out notice "this article has used the BCE/CE convention", which is intended to alert editors to this kind of thing,in order to cover his tracks. The article has used the convention BCE/CE since 16 December 2004. I would have posted a polite note at User talk:Varlaam, but I know the response I'd get. An IP without a logged-in account making the same moves would normally get a template vandalism notice. --Wetman (talk) 02:12, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed them back. SQGibbon (talk) 07:25, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  This edit switched it again with the edit summary: "If you don't like relating dates to the Lordship of Christ, come up with your own calendar instead of bastardising ours!" I personally use BC/AD, but have switched back per MOS:ERA.  davidiad.: 22:47, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  BCE switched to BC: Be aware 

message: "The daughter of the earth-giant Tityas and mother of Euphemus by Poseidon was also named Europa."
I don't think this comment should be part of this article since this article is about the main Europa character in Greek mytholoy. I think it should be eliminated or added to a separate article.
ICE77 (talk) 05:11, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnecessary comment 

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The following  essay needs a source: The myth that the continent Europe is named after a princess (Euroopè) from Tyre with a wide (euro-) eyed (oopè) face is obvious popular etymology possibly dealing with a Semitic borrowing.  The link with Tyre alerts one to the fact that the Greek word bears suspicious similarity with the Semitic root ERB (`ayn-raa'-baa') which has the meaning "westerner","alien" and "desert dweller" (being a cognate of the Semitic root GRB — ghayn-raa'-baa'). It is the root behind the word Arab (EaRaB) and — with metathesis — possibly also behind the word Hebrew (EiBR). The source for the name Europè may therefore have been a Semitic, possibly Phoenician word close to the pattern EuRuuB meaning "stranger" or "westerner". Supporting evidence comes from similar Greek folk etymologies, e.g., in the name Pontos Euxeinos ("hospitable sea") for "Black Sea" were the Greek Euxeinos replaced the Aryan (Persian or Scythian) word Akshinas "black".
I think this is just a variant on the alternative etymology already suggested. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 16:45, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: The Etymology can be explained through the ancient term "TAUROPA"; Taur or Taurus which meant "bull" with ending (R)opa, which meant αίμα ("blood"). (k)αίμα (k)rpa or (K)RB or KRV in Indo European Satem language, which means "BLOOD". 
There was no "Arabic", "Akkadian"(despite of the FACT that even old Akkadian contained Sanskrit & Indo European Satem roots), "Hebrew" origin of Europa, which is of purest Indo European linguistic root. Other claims are occult nonsense without any historial background.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.210.250.12 (talk • contribs) 10:13, 24 February 2014‎
:Is this your own speculation, or can you point us to a reliable source which says this? Paul August ☎ 11:40, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology  

message: I'm not sure about the other connections, but on the tree it currently looks like Europa might be the mother of Zeus. Instead Zeus raped her. Also, it doesn't say what the dashed lines represent. Anna (talk) 00:29, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Unclear family tree

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message: It is clear that we are talking about the knowledge that the Greeks had about ethniticities, so it needn't be without contradictions, but Europa was the sister of Phoenix, the forefather of the Phoenicians in Greek mythology, thus Europa can't be of Phoenician origin if the line was yet to exist. It is a logical point of internal coherence, which ought to be highlighted.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.54.64.85 (talk) 12:42, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction

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