Legends
Zeus and Europe
Princess Europe was playing with her
friends on an Eastern Mediterranean
beach, when Zeus, king and father of
the Twelve Gods of Olympus saw her.
He fell instantly in love with her and
appeared before her and her friends in
the form of a bull. Europe approached
him and sat on his back. The bull-Zeus
immediately carried her off across the
sea to the island of Crete.
This scene appears one the 2 euro
coin of Greece.