Arachne is the Lydian weaver whose contest with the goddess of craft and transformation into a spider is told fully in Ovid's Latin Metamorphoses, set in the Greek world of Colophon and Lydia.
Arachne boasted that her weaving surpassed Minerva's own, and when the goddess came disguised to warn her, Arachne only doubled her defiance — so Minerva revealed herself, accepted the contest, and transformed the girl into a spider when she could find no flaw in Arachne's tapestry.
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