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Also see Wintle's inaugural lecture from December 2003 delivered to the
Chair of Modern European History at the University of Amsterdam, "Europa
and the Bull, Europe, and European Studies: Visual Images as Historical
Source Material,":
<http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2327578/?site_locale=en_GB>
. Figure one from the paper is a first-century AD Roman mosaic of Europa
seated on a bull, although Wintle mentions earlier allusions attributed
to the Syracusian poet Moschus. Wintle actually began his study with
maps, and references the works of Brian Harley.
Joel Kovarsky
On 10/1/2011 11:44 PM, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote:
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MapHisters,
Joel tells me that the image of Europa seated on a bull does indeed
feature on early maps:
"... used by Ortelius (1570 map of Europe), Blaeu, de Wit and
others."
He also pointed me to the cover of Michael Wintle's book, _The Image
of Europe_ (CUP, 2009), which features Blaeu's interpretation of the
Europa legend (from the Blaeu atlas).
As far as I know, Wintle doesn't discuss the enigmatic meanings of the
Europa hieroglyph, but I agree with Joel that his alternate take on
the subject is very interesting!
Deborah
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