1. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.55-4.58, 4.65-4.70, 6.1, 6.3-6.8, 6.10-6.14, 6.17-6.24, 6.26, 6.40, 6.44-6.51, 6.53-6.69, 6.78-6.81, 6.83-6.85, 6.100-6.126, 6.128, 6.131, 6.133-6.135 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Arachne • Arachne, Emathides compared to • Arachne, as arrogant artist • Arachne, as victim • Arachne, contest with Minerva • Arachne, failure to praise Minerva • Arachne, punishment of • Arachne, social status of • Arachne, suicide attempt of • Arachne, transformation of • Emathides,, Arachne compared to • Metamorphoses, Arachne • rapes, as subject of Arachne’s tapestry • sexual subjects in art, on Arachne’s tapestry • weaving, Arachne as victim in contest • weaving, contest between Minerva and Arachne
Found in books: Fabre-Serris et al (2021) 205; Johnson (2008) 74, 76, 77, 79, 80, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95; Lyons (1997) 97, 114; Mayor (2017) 326; Pandey (2018) 21, 22; Williams (2012) 65, 66; Williams and Vol (2022) 228
4.55. “Pyramus et Thisbe, iuvenum pulcherrimus alter, 4.56. altera, quas oriens habuit, praelata puellis, 4.57. contiguas tenuere domos, ubi dicitur altam
4.65. Fissus erat tenui rima, quam duxerat olim, 4.66. cum fieret paries domui communis utrique. 4.67. Id vitium nulli per saecula longa notatum 4.68. (quid non sentit amor?) primi vidistis amantes, 4.69. et vocis fecistis iter; tutaeque per illud 4.70. murmure blanditiae minimo transire solebant.' '
6.1. Praebuerat dictis Tritonia talibus aures
6.3. Tum secum “laudare parum est; laudemur et ipsae 6.4. numina nec sperni sine poena nostra sinamus” 6.5. Maeoniaeque animum fatis intendit Arachnes, 6.6. quam sibi lanificae non cedere laudibus artis 6.7. audierat. Non illa loco neque origine gentis 6.8. clara, sed arte fuit. Pater huic Colophonius Idmon
6.10. Occiderat mater; sed et haec de plebe suoque
6.11. aequa viro fuerat. Lydas tamen illa per urbes
6.12. quaesierat studio nomen memorabile, quamvis
6.14. Huius ut adspicerent opus admirabile, saepe
6.17. Nec factas solum vestes spectare iuvabat;
6.18. tum quoque, cum fierent: tantus decor adfuit arti.
6.19. Sive rudem primos lanam glomerabat in orbes, 6.20. seu digitis subigebat opus repetitaque longo 6.21. vellera mollibat nebulas aequantia tractu, 6.22. sive levi teretem versabat pollice fusum, 6.23. seu pingebat acu, scires a Pallade doctam. 6.24. Quod tamen ipsa negat, tantaque offensa magistra
6.26. Pallas anum simulat falsosque in tempora canos
6.40. Consilii satis est in me mihi. Neve monendo
6.44. Palladaque exhibuit. Venerantur numina nymphae 6.45. Mygdonidesque nurus: sola est non territa virgo. 6.46. Sed tamen erubuit, subitusque invita notavit 6.47. ora rubor rursusque evanuit, ut solet aer 6.48. purpureus fieri, cum primum aurora movetur, 6.49. et breve post tempus candescere solis ab ortu. 6.50. Perstat in incepto stolidaeque cupidine palmae
6.53. Haud mora, constituunt diversis partibus ambae 6.54. et gracili geminas intendunt stamine telas 6.55. (tela iugo iuncta est, stamen secernit harundo); 6.57. quod digiti expediunt, atque inter stamina ductum 6.58. percusso paviunt insecti pectine dentes. 6.59. Utraque festit cinctaeque ad pectora vestes 6.60. bracchia docta movent, studio fallente laborem. 6.61. Illic et Tyrium quae purpura sensit aenum 6.62. texitur et tenues parvi discriminis umbrae, 6.63. qualis ab imbre solet percussis solibus arcus 6.64. inficere ingenti longum curvamine caelum: 6.65. in quo diversi niteant cum mille colores, 6.66. transitus ipse tamen spectantia lumina fallit; 6.68. Illic et lentum filis inmittitur aurum 6.69. et vetus in tela deducitur argumentum.
6.78. at sibi dat clipeum, dat acutae cuspidis hastam, 6.79. dat galeam capiti, defenditur aegide pectus, 6.81. edere cum bacis fetum canentis olivae
6.83. Ut tamen exemplis intellegat aemula laudis, 6.84. quod pretium speret pro tam furialibus ausis, 6.85. quattuor in partes certamina quattuor addit,
6.100. amplectens saxoque iacens lacrimare videtur.
6.101. Circuit extremas oleis pacalibus oras:
6.102. is modus est, operisque sua facit arbore finem.
6.103. Maeonis elusam designat imagine tauri
6.104. Europam: verum taurum, freta vera putares.
6.105. Ipsa videbatur terras spectare relictas
6.106. et comites clamare suas tactumque vereri
6.107. adsilientis aquae timidasque reducere plantas.
6.108. Fecit et Asterien aquila luctante teneri,
6.110. addidit, ut satyri celatus imagine pulchram
6.111. Iuppiter implerit gemino Nycteida fetu,
6.112. Amphitryon fuerit, cum te, Tirynthia, cepit,
6.113. aureus ut Danaen, Asopida luserit ignis,
6.114. Mnemosynen pastor, varius Deoida serpens.
6.115. Te quoque mutatum torvo, Neptune, iuvenco
6.116. virgine in Aeolia posuit. Tu visus Enipeus
6.118. et te flava comas frugum mitissima mater
6.119. sensit equum, sensit volucrem crinita colubris
6.120. mater equi volucris, sensit delphina Melantho.
6.121. Omnibus his faciemque suam faciemque locorum
6.123. utque modo accipitris pennas, modo terga leonis
6.124. gesserit, ut pastor Macareida luserit Issen;
6.125. Liber ut Erigonen falsa deceperit uva,
6.126. ut Saturnus equo geminum Chirona crearit.
6.128. nexilibus flores hederis habet intertextos.
6.133. ter quater Idmoniae frontem percussit Arachnes.
6.134. Non tulit infelix laqueoque animosa ligavit
6.135. guttura. Pendentem Pallas miserata levavit''. None | 4.55. a novel tale; and so the hours may glide.” 4.56. it pleased her sisters, and they ordered her 4.57. to tell the story that she loved the most.
4.65. passed her declining years in whitened towers. 4.66. Or should she tell of Nais, who with herbs, 4.67. too potent, into fishes had transformed 4.68. the bodies of her lovers, till she met 4.69. herself the same sad fate; or of that tree 4.70. which sometime bore white fruit, but now is changed
6.1. All this Minerva heard; and she approved
6.3. was brooding thus, “It is an easy thing 6.4. to praise another, I should do as they: 6.5. no creature of the earth should ever slight 6.6. the majesty that dwells in me,—without 6.7. just retribution.”—So her thought was turned 6.8. upon the fortune of Arachne — proud,
6.10. won by the art of deftly weaving wool,
6.11. a girl who had not fame for place of birth,
6.12. nor fame for birth, but only fame for skill!
6.14. in Colophon ; where, at his humble trade,
6.17. had died. Arachne in a mountain town
6.18. by skill had grown so famous in the Land
6.19. of Lydia , that unnumbered curious nymph 6.20. eager to witness her dexterity, 6.21. deserted the lush vineyards of Timolus; 6.22. or even left the cool and flowing stream 6.23. of bright Pactolus, to admire the cloth, 6.24. or to observe her deftly spinning wool.
6.26. was twisting the coarse wool in little balls,
6.40. and with a staff to steady her weak limbs.
6.44. with lengthened years; and, therefore, you should not 6.45. despise my words. It is no harm in you 6.46. to long for praise of mortals, when 6.47. your nimble hands are spinning the soft wool,—' "6.48. but you should not deny Minerva's art—" '6.49. and you should pray that she may pardon you, 6.50. for she will grant you pardon if you ask.”
6.53. She hardly could restrain her threatening hand, 6.54. and, trembling in her anger, she replied 6.55. to you, disguised Minerva: 6.57. worn out and witless in your palsied age, 6.58. a great age is your great misfortune!— Let' "6.59. your daughter and your son's wife—if the God" '6.60. have blessed you—let them profit by your words; 6.61. within myself, my knowledge is contained 6.62. ufficient; you need not believe that your 6.63. advice does any good; for I am quite 6.64. unchanged in my opinion. Get you gone,— 6.65. advise your goddess to come here herself, 6.66. and not avoid the contest!” 6.68. the goddess said, “Minerva comes to you!” 6.69. And with those brief words, put aside the shape
6.78. and, quickly when the glorious sun comes up, 6.79. pales into white. 6.81. her own destruction, for she would not give
6.83. Nor did the daughter of almighty Jove 6.84. decline: disdaining to delay with words, 6.85. he hesitated not.
6.100. that spans new glory in the curving sky,
6.101. its glittering rays reflected in the rain,
6.102. preads out a multitude of blended tints,
6.103. in scintillating beauty to the sight
6.104. of all who gaze upon it; — so the threads,
6.105. inwoven, mingled in a thousand tints,
6.106. harmonious and contrasting; shot with gold:
6.107. and there, depicted in those shining webs,
6.108. were shown the histories of ancient days:—
6.110. where ancient Cecrops built his citadel,
6.111. and showed the old contention for the name
6.112. it should be given.—Twelve celestial God
6.113. urrounded Jupiter , on lofty thrones;
6.114. and all their features were so nicely drawn,
6.115. that each could be distinguished.— Jupiter
6.116. appeared as monarch of those judging Gods.
6.118. contending with Minerva. As he struck
6.119. the Rock with his long trident, a wild horse
6.120. prang forth which he bequeathed to man. He claimed
6.121. his right to name the city for that gift.
6.123. bearing a shield, and in her hand a lance,
6.124. harp-pointed, and a helmet on her head—
6.125. her breast well-guarded by her Aegis: there
6.126. he struck her spear into the fertile earth,
6.128. pale with new clustered fruits.—And those twelve Gods,
6.133. from the great deeds of ancient histories,
6.134. and what award presumption must expect,
6.135. Minerva wove four corners with life scene' '. None |
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