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Arachne (/ ə ˈ r æ k n iː /; from Ancient Greek: Ἀράχνη, romanized: Arákhnē, lit. 'spider', cognate with Latin araneus) [1] is the protagonist of a tale in Greek mythology known primarily from the version told by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE), which is the earliest extant source for the story. [2]
Phalanx (Ancient Greek: Φάλαγξ, romanized: Phálanx, lit. 'spider') is a minor Attic figure in Greek mythology who features in a lesser-known narrative of the myth of Arachne, the girl who enraged the goddess Athena by boasting of being a better weaver than her and was thus transformed into a spider by Athena.
The Northern wind. Roman equivalent of the Greek Boreas. I: 64, VI: 682–702, VII: 695, XII: 24, XIII: 418, XV: 471 [28] [29] Arachne: Daughter of Idmon. Boasted she could weave better than Minerva and won over her in a weaving contest. Jealous, the goddess metamorphosed Arachne into a spider. VI: 5-148 [30] Arcas: Son of Jupiter and the nymph ...
The Greek "arachne" (αράχνη) means "spider", [14] [15] and is the origin of Arachnida, the spiders' taxonomic class. [16] Arachne depicted as a half-spider half-human in Gustave Doré's illustration for an 1868 edition of Dante's Purgatorio. This myth tells of Arachne, the daughter of a famous Tyrian purple wool dyer in Hypaepa of Lydia ...
Julia Carpenter was known as the second Spider-Woman, later as the second Arachne, and then as the second Madame Web. Julia Carpenter as Spider-Woman appears in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), [ 2 ] and the Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film Madame Web (2024) under her maiden name Julia Cornwall , portrayed by Sydney Sweeney .
Boundaries are constantly blurring in “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” the revolutionary mid-’80s film that became a Kander and Ebb musical, and that cunningly (and stunningly) morphs back to the ...
We come in contact with it all the time, but the markings on the one-dollar bill remain shrouded in mystery. Until now. 1. The Creature. In the upper-right corner of the bill, above the left of ...
Arachne ("spider") Spider: Athena: Arachne was a Lydian girl noted for her talent in weaving. When she bragged of being a better weaver than Athena herself, the goddess challenged her. In their contest, Arachne drew various instances of gods seducing mortal women, which enraged Athena, who then proceeded to beat Arachne.