Rape of Europa depicted in the Roman fresco from the House of Jason (Casa di Giasone) in Pompeii (20-25 AD), now on display in the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, Campania, Italy. Europa is depicted seating on a bull (actually Zeus in the guise of an animal) which as feted and entertained by her companions before he carries her off to Crete, where Europa had three sons fathered by Zeus: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon, who became the three judges of the Underworld when they died.

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