List of lineae on Europa
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This is a list of lineae on Europa
. Most Europan lineae are named after characters and places in the legends of Cadmus
and Europa
; others are named after important megalithic stone rows built by the Neolithic
peoples of Britain
and France
.
See also the list of craters on Europa and list of geological features on Europa.
Europa (moon)
Europa Slightly smaller than Earth's Moon, Europa is primarily made of silicate rock and probably has an iron core. It has a tenuous atmosphere composed primarily of oxygen. Its surface is composed of ice and is one of the smoothest in the Solar System. This surface is striated by cracks and...
. Most Europan lineae are named after characters and places in the legends of Cadmus
Cadmus
Cadmus or Kadmos , in Greek mythology was a Phoenician prince, the son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa. He was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores...
and Europa
Europa (mythology)
In Greek mythology Europa was a Phoenician woman of high lineage, from whom the name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. The name Europa occurs in Hesiod's long list of daughters of primordial Oceanus and Tethys...
; others are named after important megalithic stone rows built by the Neolithic
Neolithic
The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...
peoples of Britain
Prehistoric Britain
For the purposes of this article, Prehistoric Britain is that period of time between the first arrival of humans on the land mass now known as Great Britain and the start of recorded British history...
and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
See also the list of craters on Europa and list of geological features on Europa.
| Linea | Named after |
|---|---|
| Adonis Linea | Adonis |
| Agave Linea | Agave Agave (mythology) In Greek mythology, Agave was the daughter of Cadmus, the king and founder of the city of Thebes, Greece, and of the goddess Harmonia. Her sisters were Autonoë, Ino and Semele, and her brother was Polydorus. She married Echion, one of the five Spartoi, and was the mother of Pentheus, a king of... |
| Agenor Linea | Agenor Agenor Agenor was in Greek mythology and history a Phoenician king of Tyre. Herodotus estimates that Agenor lived sometime before the year 2000 B.C..-Genealogy:... |
| Alphesiboea Linea | Alphesiboea Alphesiboea Alphesiboea was the name of several characters in Greek mythology:*Alphesiboea, the mother of Adonis with Phoenix .*Alphesiboea, a daughter of Phegeus, who married Alcmaeon. In some versions of this myth, she is called Arsinoe.... |
| Androgeos Linea | Androgeus |
| Argiope Linea | Argiope Argiope -Greek Mythological Persons:* Argiope, a Naiad, a daughter of the River God Nile. She was wife of Agenor and mother of his children. More commonly known as Telephassa... |
| Asterius Linea | Asterius Asterius The name "Asterius" may refer to:* Asterion, name of two sacred kings of Crete* Asterius of Ostia , Christian martyr and saint* Asterius of Caesarea , Christian martyr and saint* Asterius, Claudius and Neon , Christian martyr and saint... |
| Astypalaea Linea | Astypalaea Astypalaea In Greek mythology, Astypalaea was the daughter of Phoenix and Perimede and the sister of Europa. She was a lover of Poseidon who seduced her, and had two sons by him: Ancaeus, King of Samos, and Eurypylos, King of Kos.... |
| Autonoë Linea | Autonoë Autonoe In Greek mythology, Autonoë was a daughter of Cadmus, founder of Thebes, Greece, and the goddess Harmonia. She was the wife of Aristaeus and mother of Actaeon and possibly Macris... |
| Belus Linea | Belus the Egyptian Belus (Egyptian) Belus was in Greek mythology a king of Egypt and father of Aegyptus and Danaus and brother to Agenor. The wife of Belus has been named as Achiroe, or Side .... |
| Butterdon Linea | Butterdon Hill Butterdon Hill Butterdon Hill is on Dartmoor, in southwest England. The remains of a small stone circle and a stone row can be found on the summit. The name Butterdon is believed to derive an Old English word for "pasture".-References:... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... |
| Cadmus Linea | Cadmus Cadmus Cadmus or Kadmos , in Greek mythology was a Phoenician prince, the son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa. He was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores... |
| Chthonius Linea | Chthonius Spartes In Greek mythology, Spartoí are a mythical people who were held to be Ares' children.-Spartoi in Thebes:Cadmus arrived in Thebes, Greece after following a cow at the urging of the oracle at Delphi, who instructed him to found a city wherever the cow should stop. Cadmus, wishing to sacrifice the... |
| Corick Linea | Corick Corick Corick is a megalithic site in the civil parish of Ballynascreen, in Magherafelt District Council, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It includes a stone circle and a stone row. The Corick stone circles and alignments are located 2 km north east of Ballybriest court-tomb, 400 metres south of... , Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west... |
| Drizzlecomb Linea | Drizzlecombe Drizzlecombe Drizzlecombe or Thrushelcombe is an area of Dartmoor in the county of Devon, England. It is located on the western side of the moor about east of the village of Yelverton, to the west of the upper reaches of the River Plym.... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... |
| Drumskinny Linea | Drumskinny Drumskinny Drumskinny is the site of a stone circle in the townland of Drumskinny, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. With the inclusion of an adjacent cairn and alignment, the stone circle is a State Care Historic Monument in Fermanagh District Council area, at grid ref: H 2009 7072... , Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west... |
| Echion Linea | Echion Echion In Greek mythology, the name Echion "son of the viper", cf. ἔχις echis "viper") referred to five different beings.*One of the Gigantes.*One of the surviving Spartoi, the "sown men" that sprang up from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus; "it was Echion who, for his great valor, was preferred by... |
| Euphemus Linea | Euphemus Euphemus Euphemus in Greek mythology was a son of Poseidon, an Argonaut connected with the legend of the foundation of Cyrene.Euphemus is also a character mentioned in in Book II of the Iliad.- Greek mythology :... |
| Glaukos Linea | Glaucus Glaucus (son of Minos) Glaucus was a son of Minos and Pasiphaë. One day, Glaucus while playing with a ball or chasing a mouse fell into a jar of honey and died... |
| Harmonia Linea | Harmonia |
| Hyperenor Linea | Hyperenor Spartes In Greek mythology, Spartoí are a mythical people who were held to be Ares' children.-Spartoi in Thebes:Cadmus arrived in Thebes, Greece after following a cow at the urging of the oracle at Delphi, who instructed him to found a city wherever the cow should stop. Cadmus, wishing to sacrifice the... |
| Ino Linea | Ino Ino (Greek mythology) In Greek mythology Ino was a mortal queen of Thebes, who after her death and transfiguration was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess." Alcman called her "Queen of the Sea" , which, if not hyperbole, would make her a doublet of Amphitrite.In her mortal self, Ino,... |
| Katreus Linea | Katreus Katreus Katreus is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.-References:*... |
| Kennet Linea | West Kennet Long Barrow West Kennet Long Barrow The West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic tomb or barrow, situated on a prominent chalk ridge, near Silbury Hill, one-and-a-half miles south of Avebury in Wiltshire, England. The site was recorded by John Aubrey in the 17th century and by William Stukeley in the 18th century.Archaeologists... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... |
| Libya Linea | Libya Libya (mythology) Libya is the name given to both a region of North Africa and a daughter of Epaphus, King of Egypt, in both Greek and Roman mythology.-Greek mythology:... |
| Mehen Linea | Mehen, Brittany |
| Merrivale Linea | Merrivale, Devon Merrivale, Devon Merrivale is a locality in western Dartmoor, in the West Devon district of Devon, England. It is best known for the nearby series of Bronze Age megalithic monuments to the south and a former granite quarry.-Merrivale hamlet:... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... |
| Minos Linea | Minos Minos In Greek mythology, Minos was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every year he made King Aegeus pick seven men and seven women to go to Daedalus' creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by The Minotaur. After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in Hades. The Minoan civilization of Crete... |
| Onga Linea | Onga Onga Onga may refer to:*Onga District, Fukuoka, a district of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan**Onga, Fukuoka, a town in that district*Onga, Hungary, a village*Onga, Gabon... |
| Pelagon Linea | Pelagon Pelagon There are several figures named Pelagon in Greek mythology.# Pelagon, the King of Phocis who gives Cadmus the cow that will guide him to Boeotia.... |
| Pelorus Linea | Pelorus Spartes In Greek mythology, Spartoí are a mythical people who were held to be Ares' children.-Spartoi in Thebes:Cadmus arrived in Thebes, Greece after following a cow at the urging of the oracle at Delphi, who instructed him to found a city wherever the cow should stop. Cadmus, wishing to sacrifice the... |
| Phineus Linea | Phineus Phineus Phineus may refer to:* Phineus, killed by Perseus. See Andromeda * Blind King Phineus or Phineas of Thrace, visited by Jason and the Argonauts* Phineas Nigellus, a deceased headmaster in the Harry Potter universe... |
| Phoenix Linea | Phoenix, brother of Agenor |
| Rhadamanthys Linea | Rhadamanthys |
| Sarpedon Linea | Sarpedon Sarpedon In Greek mythology, Sarpedon referred to at least three different people.-Son of Zeus and Europa:The first Sarpedon was a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother to Minos and Rhadamanthys. He was raised by the king Asterion and then, banished by Minos, his rival in love for the young Miletus, he... , son of Europa |
| Sharpitor Linea | Sharpitor Sharpitor Sharpitor is a megalithic site near Lustleigh in Dartmoor, Devon, England. The tor is surrounded by forest, overlooking the Bovey Valley. The remains consist of a degraded but still visible stone row.... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... |
| Sparti Linea | Spartes Spartes In Greek mythology, Spartoí are a mythical people who were held to be Ares' children.-Spartoi in Thebes:Cadmus arrived in Thebes, Greece after following a cow at the urging of the oracle at Delphi, who instructed him to found a city wherever the cow should stop. Cadmus, wishing to sacrifice the... |
| Staldon Linea | Stalldown Barrow Stalldown Barrow Stalldown Barrow, sometimes called Staldon, is a megalithic site in Devon, about 5km from Harford. It consists of a long stone row. It is fairly close to the stone circle on Stall Moor.... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... |
| Tectamus Linea | Tectamus Asterion In Greek mythology, Asterion denotes two sacred kings of Crete. The first Asterion or Asterius , the son of Tectamus or son of Neleus and Chloris by the Greeks called "king" of Crete, was the consort of Europa and stepfather of her sons by Zeus, who had to assume the form of the Cretan bull of... |
| Telephassa Linea | Telephassa Telephassa In Greek mythology, Telephassa is a lunar epithet like Telephae that is sometimes substituted for Argiope, the wife of Agenor, according to his name a "leader of men" in Phoenicia, and mother of Cadmus. In some versions she is the daughter of Nilus, god of the Nile and Nephele, a soft cloud oceanid... |
| Thasus Linea | Thasus Thasus In Greek mythology, Thasus was a son of Poseidon . In the stories, he was one of those who set out from Phoenicia in search of Europa, and "founded" the eponymous town of Thasos on the island of the same name.... |
| Thynia Linea | Thynia Thynia In the ancient world, Thynia was a region of Asia Minor part of or equal to Bithynia which means "Both-Thynias". It was occupied by the Thyni, a Thracian people who came from Thrace. Note that in the Middle Ages, Mesothynia was the peninsula of modern Kocaeli.Its name came from Thyneas son of... |
| Tormsdale Linea | Tormsdale Tormsdale Tormsdale is a megalithic site on the banks of the River Thurso, in Caithness, Scotland. It is 3 km south of Westerdale.The site consist of some low stone rows which are difficult to trace as the stones are small and have been partly overgrown by grass. Tormsdale is near to another stone row... , Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the... |
| Udaeus Linea | Udaeus Spartes In Greek mythology, Spartoí are a mythical people who were held to be Ares' children.-Spartoi in Thebes:Cadmus arrived in Thebes, Greece after following a cow at the urging of the oracle at Delphi, who instructed him to found a city wherever the cow should stop. Cadmus, wishing to sacrifice the... |
| Yelland Linea | Yelland Yelland Yelland is a small village in North Devon between Instow and Fremington in the English county of Devon. Yelland is included within the parish of Fremington.-Character:... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... |