Crossword-Solution: ARACHNE 7 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

ARACHNE BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY There was a certain maiden of Lydia, Arachne by name, renowned throughout the country for her skill as a weaver.

And they saw that the goddess, still merciful, was spinning; as a warning for Arachne, the pictures of her own triumph over reckless gods and mortals.

Meanwhile Arachne, whose head was quite turned with vanity, embroidered her web with stories against the gods, making light of Zeus himself and of Apollo, and portraying them as birds and beasts.

For an instant she stood entranced; then she tore the web across, and three times she touched Arachne's forehead with her spindle.

Among the best for telling are: Arachne Pandora Midas Apollo and Daphne Apollo and Hyacinthus Narcissus Latona and the Rustics Proserpine [Footnote 1: A well-nigh indispensable book for teachers is Guerber's _Myths of Greece and Rome_, which contains in brief form a complete collection of the classic myths.] CHAPTER III ADAPTATION OF STORIES FOR TELLING It soon becomes easy to pick out from a collection such stories as can be well told; but at no time is it easy to find a sufficient number of such stories.