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 and the Weaving Contest. Long long long time ago, there was a girl called Arachne and she was a really good weaver ad spinner. People around the world came to see her cloth.She was really proud of herself. She said she was better at spinning and weaving than the goddess Athena was. Athena was also a good spinner and weaver and she was mad at Arachne. So she challenged Arachne to a weaving contest. They had to wove from early in the morning to dart at night and they would compared whose was better. Athena had woven a beautiful cloth of good thing about gods and goddesses.but Arachne thought she was smart she had woven bad thing about gods and goddesses: they are drunk and making mess of things. but in fact she did better than Athena.so Athena was really angry.