Telephassa (also Telephaassa, Telephe) is the Phoenician queen — wife of Agenor (or, in a Phoenix-father fork, mother under that stemma) — whose children include Europa, Cadmus, Cilix, Phoenix, and sometimes Thasus. After Zeus carries Europa to Crete she wanders with Cadmus in search of her daughter, dying in Thrace before Cadmus founds Thebes. Her lunar epithet ("far-shining") is sometimes swapped for Argiope; the atlas id keeps the Phoenician mother distinct from other Argiope figures.
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I.Family
Telephassa is wife of Agenor, "leader of men" in Phoenicia, and mother of Europa, Cilix, Cadmus, Phoenix, and (in some accounts) Thasus — or Thasus as Cilix's son. One strand makes Cadmus and Europa children of Phoenix instead, with Telephassa still in the maternal line; another calls Telephe daughter of an otherwise unknown Epimedusa. She is sometimes said to descend from Libya.
Moschus's Europa gives her the golden basket Hephaestus made for Libya when Poseidon took Libya to his bed; Libya passed the marvel to Telephassa as kin, and Telephassa to Europa.
II.The search for Europa
When Zeus, as a white bull, carried Europa to Crete, Telephassa accompanied Cadmus in the quest for her daughter. Mother and son travelled by Rhodes and Thera to Thrace, where Telephassa fell ill and died. On Samothrace, Kerényi notes, the mother was called Elektra or Elektryone. After burying her, Cadmus learned of Delphi from the Thracians; the oracle sent him to follow a cow to the site of Thebes. Cilix settled in southern Asia Minor, giving his name to Cilicia.