本条目不是关于Tityus的女儿，Euphemus的母亲（父亲是波塞冬），她也叫做欧罗巴。
歐羅巴也是歐洲的全稱。
历史和希腊神话上欧罗巴是美丽的腓尼基公主,主要有两种关于她的故事, 一说她被主神宙斯诱奸, 后宙斯将她带至克里特岛. 一说她是被克里特人绑架到克里特岛.欧洲大陆以她的名字命名.
家族
古希腊的历史学家希罗多德（约公元前485-约公元前425）认为欧罗巴是克里特人绑架到克里特岛的.他们这样做是为了报复对阿戈斯(Argos)的公主艾奥的绑架.
希罗多德
宙斯
欧洲
古罗马诗人奥维德写下了下列诗句描述宙斯的诱奸:
And gradually she lost her fear, and he
Offered his breast for her virgin caresses,
His horns for her to wind with chains of flowers
Until the princess dared to mount his back
Her pet bull's back, unwitting whom she rode.
Then—slowly, slowly down the broad, dry beach—
First in the shallow waves the great god set
His spurious hooves, then sauntered further out
Till in the open sea he bore his prize
Fear filled her heart as, gazing back, she saw
The fast receding sands. Her right hand grasped
A horn, the other lent upon his back
Her fluttering tunic floated in the breeze.
奥威德
英文Europa指木卫二, 它是木星最亮的四颗行星之一，与木星的距离排在其卫星的第七位，最早为伽俐略观测到. 属于伽利略卫星之一.
卫星
Apollodorus, Bibliotheke, III, i, 1-2
Herodotus, The Histories, Book 1.2
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 862, translation by A.D. Melville (1986), p.50
