Many myths and legends of Crete center around King Minos, son of the god Zeus and the Phoenician princess Europa. The thunder god had turned himself into a gentle, white bull. Charmed by the ...

Bulls play a recurring role in Minos’s life. Minos, the son of Zeus and Europa, was born after Zeus, in the form of a white bull, abducted Europa, the sister of the hero Cadmus, and took her to ...