Hi Brian, I know all that. Just the last part was contrary to the one I heard.
Best Regards, Hayden -----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Peterson Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 9:28 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important MOTA News I don't know what version you heard then. The way it actually went was that Arachne made the mistake of boasting that she could weave better than Athena herself. Naturally Athena was furious when she found out about that. I seem to recall she was in fact going to kill her, but she decided to give Arachne one chance to prove herself after she liked a cloak that Arachne gave her by way of apology. After the contest when Arachne lost, she tried to commit suicide by hanging herself and Athena, either by way of apology or even in deference to her skill as a weaver, turned her into a spider. We are the Knights who say...Ni! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hayden Presley" <hdpres...@hotmail.com> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important MOTA News > Hi Thomas, > Hmmm...I've never heard that version of the myth before. The one I've > heard > went something like Athena saw Arachne's portrail of the gods, and turned > her into a spider for that. > > Best Regards, > Hayden > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On > Behalf Of Thomas Ward > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 9:02 AM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important MOTA News > > Hi Bryan, > Well, some might call what Athena does cheating, but others might also > see it as being clever and sneeky. For example, the Trojan Horse, was > her idea, and of course that was the deciding factor in the Trojan > War. It was a sneeky and underhanded trick to get a small force of > armed men inside Troi's deffences, but it worked. Was that cheating or > just being sneeky? > As for Athena's contest with Arachne Athena did in deed use the clouds > to do her weaving which of course caused her to win the contest. > However, As Athena herself told Arachne after she had won the contest > Arachne didn't tell her that she couldn't use the clouds before the > contest started. Again, this could be seen as cheating, but it also > could mean Athena was being sneeky and underhanded because the terms > of the contest never said that she couldn't use the clouds in her > weaving. Sure what she did wasn't fair, but she was only playing by > the rules stipulated before the contest started, and they didn't state > that using the clouds was prohibited. > However, in that particular story we also get to see Athena's > compassion for mortals too. after Arachne lost the contest she tried > to hang herself with a rope. Athena saw this and turned Arachne into a > spider, and made her the master weaver of all the animals. I think > that was meant as a belated apology and possibly as a gift of sorts. > > On 6/27/10, Bryan Peterson <bpeterson2...@cableone.net> wrote: >> Although she did have something of a temper from what I recall, and a >> tendency to cheat in all the contests I've ever read about. Arachne was a >> case in point, although you're right in that she definitely didn't kill > her. >> I seem to recall that in one version of the story Arachne actually won >> the >> weaving contest. In another she did lose because Athena used the clouds >> as >> weaving material. Either way of course Arachne ended up as a spider. 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