Arachne

Arachne
Author: J.J. Hart
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1616413026

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 Tales Greek Myth. Pink level for your fluent reader.

Toxicon & Arachne

Toxicon & Arachne
Author: Joyelle McSweeney
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1472156048

'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is uncanny that it should arrive in the middle of a global pandemic... Frightening and brilliant' Dan Chiasson, New Yorker How does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe? In the months leading up to her daughter Arachne's birth, US poet Joyelle McSweeney set out to write a quiver of poems like a quiver of poison arrows: formally and sonically virtuosic, laced with the poet's obsessive concerns with contamination, decay and the sublime, featuring a crown of 'toxic sonnets' for the tuberculosis bacterium that killed Keats. But when Arachne was born with an unexpected birth defect, lived briefly and died, the poet was visited by a second welter of poems, odes of love, grief, perplexity and rage. These two books, Toxicon & Arachne, form a double collection of poems weighing love, grief, art and survival in increasingly toxic days. Toxicon & Arachne is the culmination of eight years of engagement with lyric under a regime of global and personal catastrophes.

Arachne, the Spider Woman

Arachne, the Spider Woman
Author: Saviour Pirotta
Publisher: Orchard
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2006-03-01
Genre: Arachne (Greek mythology)
ISBN: 9781843627807

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 of larger-than-life characters in a series of extraordinary adventures.

The Story of Arachne

The Story of Arachne
Author: Pamela Espeland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1980
Genre: Arachne (Greek mythology)
ISBN: 9780876141304

Because she boasts that she weaves better than anyone, Arachne is turned into a spider.

Arachne's Daughter

Arachne's Daughter
Author: Dannii Lane
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609761804

Arachne's Daughter: A tale of murder, mayhem and madness is a modern day Greek tragedy, with multiple threads weaving a strange, yet familiar pattern. In this spellbinding story, a beautiful young witch named Antigone finds herself constantly vilified by religious bigotry, superstition and ignorance that feed off 17th-century witch paranoia. One day a mysterious parcel arrives. It is a powerful and magical gift from the past, one that keeps cropping up at unexpected moments with strange outcomes. Antigone's story is one of being discriminated against, and of being sexually abused and tortured, but the day comes when Antigone the victim becomes Antigone the ruthless assassin. In her deadly wake, she leaves communities cringing, the authorities baffled, and the mental health system in chaos. Amid the murder, mayhem and madness, Antigone must also battle her own demons of mental illness and a deeply scarred childhood. From Mount Olympus in ancient Greece to Mount Wellington in 20th-century Tasmania, and places in-between, Arachne's Daughter is a journey fraught with madness, danger, death and sacrifice. About the Author: Dannii Lane was one of thirty-five alternate personalities (alters) in a multiple personality system (MPD). Dannii was also a witch. Inspiration for the book came from a love of Greek history and myths, and a background of child abuse and mental illness. When not writing, Dannii worked tirelessly advocating for mental health reform. Sadly, due to spontaneous integration, Dannii did not survive to see her novel published. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/DanniiLane

I Am Arachne

I Am Arachne
Author: Elizabeth Spires
Publisher: Paw Prints
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-07-21
Genre: Mythology, Classical
ISBN: 9781442030770

Presents a retelling of fifteen Greek and Roman myths from the point of view of the main protagonist, including those of Arachne, Callisto, Baucis and Philemon, and Sisyphus.

Arachne Speaks

Arachne Speaks
Author: Kate Hovey
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-12-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781481450690

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 exhorts her spider minions in this epic adaptation of a famous Greek myth. The talented, rebellious teenage Arachne here tells her own story in unforgettable words. She speaks of her impoverished childhood and lonely, steadfast pursuit of excellence in a bold, passionate voice. Her unshakable belief in herself and persistent questioning of divine authority lead to a dramatic confrontation with the goddess Athena, a fateful weaving contest, and an unexpected transformation. Poet Kate Hovey's lyrical verse and Blair Drawson's stunning artwork together create a timeless rendering of the ancient struggle between the headstrong Arachne and the powerful Athena.

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
Author: Ann Rosalind Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780521786638

This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.