Zeus saw Europa the daughter of Phoenix gathering flowers in a meadow with some nymphs and fell in love with her. So he came down and changed himself into a bull and breathed from his mouth a crocus.! In this way he deceived Europa, carried her off and crossed the sea to Crete where he had intercourse with her... Then in this condition he made her live with Asterion the king of the Cretans. There she. conceived and bore three sons, Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys. The tale is in Hesiod and Bacchylides.
But according to Hesiod (Phineus) was the son of Phoenix, Agenor’s son and Cassiopea.
But Hesiod says that he (Adonis) was the son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea.
As it is said in Hesiod in the Catalogue of Women concerning Demodoce the daughter of Agenor: “ Demodoce whom very many of men on earth, mighty princes, wooed, promising splendid gifts, because of her exceeding beauty.”
Hesiod says that (the children of Amphion and Niobe) were ten sons and ten daughters. But Hesiod says they were nine boys and ten girls;—unless after all the verses are not Hesiod’s but are falsely ascribed to him as are many others.
And Hesiod says that when Oedipus had died at Thebes, Argea the daughter of Adrastus came with others to the funeral of Oedipus.
Tityos the son of Elara,
Cephisus is a river in Orchomenus where also the Graces are worshipped. Eteoclus the son of the river Cephisus first sacrificed to them, as Hesiod says: “which from Lilaea spouts forth its sweet-flowing water. . . And which flows on by Panopeus and through Glechon and through Orchomenus, winding like a snake.”
For the father of Menesthius, Areithoiis was a Boeotian living at Arnae; and this is in Boeotia, as also Hesiod says.
Onchestus: a grove.) It is situate in the country of Haliartus and was founded by Onchestus the Boeotian, as Hesiod says.
There is also a plain of Aega bordering on Cirrha, according to Hesiod.
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