Or, The Girl Who Told the Truth about the Gods By Nicole Saldarriaga, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom I’d take a look at the humble spider. Though spiders may not qualify as the most terrifying of creatures, their inclusion in a popular myth about Roman goddess, Minerva, certainly clues us into what the Greeks and Romans found chilling. I’m speaking here about the myth of Arachne, of course.
The world has come some way concerning people expressing themselves in an honest way, at least partially...
Where people are under the oppression of religion they cannot do so without being persecuted, and they're therefore forced to live a life of pretence, or a pretentious life, where nobody has a real opinion: only the regurgitations of to whoever is preaching to them...
Athena and Arachne: How the Spider Came to Be
The world has come some way concerning people expressing themselves in an honest way, at least partially...
Where people are under the oppression of religion they cannot do so without being persecuted, and they're therefore forced to live a life of pretence, or a pretentious life, where nobody has a real opinion: only the regurgitations of to whoever is preaching to them...