Myths often explain the creation of the world and its creatures. Find out how the Greek goddess Athena created spiders in this brilliantly illustrated Short Tal
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Arachne is always boasting that her weaving is better than the goddess Athena's. So Athena decides to teach the boastful girl a terrible lesson... Join a cast o
Orb weavers! Weavers of tangled nets! All eight-legged ones... Cast to the four winds my story's thread. Arachne, classical literature's most famous weaver exho