His divine queen, Hera, had lately been too busy taming the magical beasts that had been captured from the earth to bother with him, and while this was going on, this king of the gods found the beautiful princess Europa again in Phoenicia on earth.

She was wearing a gorgeous long-breasted dress with many scenes from the lives of the gods woven in gold and silver threads, a gift from Poseidon, the god of the sea, to her ancestor Lepia, when they were passionately in love, and ...