After a weaving contest between mortal and goddess, Athena began beating Arachne, who tried to hang herself in fright. Athena turned the arrogant weaver into a spider, and Arachne and her ...

In Hades 2, Arachne is a companion who bestows a unique boon to Melinoe. Like every other character in the game, Arachne is also inspired by ancient Greek mythology. Here, she appears as a ...

Athena took pity and transformed the rope into a web and Arachne into a spider. It's an apt literary allusion for a new study on how spiders weave their webs, which is no doubt why scientists at ...

Instead, she became deeply engrossed in the tale of Arachne, the mythological weaver-turned-spider who challenged the goddess Athena to a duel of the looms, and whose fate was a point of ...

At the point of death, Athena condemns Arachne to an eternity as a spider. Canadian artist Blair Drawson’s illustrations echo the sombre tone of the myth. Arachne’s expressions are almost invariably ...