...from her own name. Indeed, I would easily believe this to be true, since that part of the world is called by this name even to the present day original: "ex nomine suo Europam appellatam fuisse." The author refers to the etymological tradition of the three known continents—Europe, Asia, and Africa—being named after figures of antiquity..

X. LIBYA, DAUGHTER OF EPAPHUS

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Libya was the daughter of Epaphus, King of the Egyptians, and Cassiopeia. It was from her, as some authors claim, that the region of Libya In ancient geography, "Libya" often referred to the entire continent of Africa or the specific region west of the Nile. received its name.

As is recorded in the most ancient histories, she was a woman of extraordinary beauty and possessed—a quality rarely found in the women of that time—an exceedingly noble and independent spirit, which led her to place very little value on her father's authority. For this reason, when she had reached a marriageable age, she scorned both her father and her home in Egypt and sailed across the sea to Africa with a few companions.

When she arrived in that territory which was then known as Gaetulia A region in North Africa inhabited by the Gaetuli, located south of the Atlas Mountains., she settled there and commanded that the entire region be called Libya after her own name. Furthermore, as some traditions maintain, she consorted there with the god Neptune and gave birth to two sons, Agenor and Belus. Of these two, Agenor later migrated to Phoenicia, where he reigned and fathered Europa; Belus, however, returned to Egypt and secured the kingdom there This genealogy links the royal houses of Egypt, Phoenicia, and Crete, suggesting a shared ancestry for the rulers of the Mediterranean world..