Ancient History/Greece/Minoan Civilization. The location of the island of Crete within modern Greece. The Minoans were a Bronze Age civilization that flourished on the Greek Aegean island of Crete from around 3000 to 1100 BCE.
The book describes Arachne as '...the greatest weaver in the worldâher fate's the proof of it. She had the bad luck to defeat the goddess Athena in a weaving contest. Athena was a sore loser, and Arachne is now a spider, creating only for Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, by special arrangement.
Arachne challenged Athena to a basket weaving contest but since Athena is the goddess of Weaving Athena won, and Arachne committed suicide but Athena felt pity and brought her â¦ back from the dead and made her the Goddess of Spiders and that her Children would expert weavers.