Arachne

Arachne

Arachne (Arach´ne), a Lydian princess, who challenged Minerva to a spinning contest, but Minerva struck her on the head with a spindle, and turned her into a spider.

“… So her disemboweled web,
Arachne, in a hall or kitchen spreads.
Obvious to vagrant flies.”

John Phillips

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