Cadmus kills the guardian of the spring, sows its teeth, and founds Thebes with the survivors. Read once as courage and reparation, once as a foreign settlement told from the side that won.
Arachne weaves what Athena’s tapestry leaves out, and the goddess tears it rather than answer it. A reading of Ovid’s weaving contest through the disguises of the gods, the looms of Penelope and Philomela, and the spider of the Upanishads.
