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In Greek mythology, a princess carried off by Zeus under the guise of a white bull. She was the daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor of Tyre; sister of Cadmus, founder of Thebes; and the personification of the continent of Europe.
Zeus abducted her while she played on the seashore, and crossed the sea to Crete where she bore him three sons: Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon. She married Asterius, king of Crete, who adopted her sons as his heirs; Zeus gave him the bronze giant Talos to guard his realm as recompense. After her death she was worshipped in Crete as Hellotis. In one tradition she was transformed into a bull and became the constellation Taurus.
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