Arachne and of the deal she makes with the collector's wife Lydia. Arachne In Greek mythology (and later Roman mythology), Arachne (; from "spider", cognate with Latin "araneus") was a talented mortal weaver who challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest; this hubris resulted in her being transformed into a spider. There are many versions of the story's weaving contest, with each saying that one or the other won. Arachne was a Lydian maiden who was the daughter of Idmon of Colophon, who was a famous dyer in purple. She was credited to have invented linen cloth
Athena Promachos where a large, bronze, statue of Athena was destroyed by a “drunken crowd” of Crusaders which is now thought to have been the "Athena Promachos." Of surviving models thought to represent the type, the two outstanding ones are the "Athena Elgin", a small bronze statuette in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who bears an owl in her outstretched hand (as among some coin types), and the "Athena Medici" torso in the Musée du Louvre, of which there are a number of replicas. The engravings on the shield which Athena is holding were originally drafted by the great Greek painter, Parrhasius