Hi Bryan, Well, some might call what Athena does cheating, but others might also see it as being clever and sneeky. For example, the Trojan Horse, was her idea, and of course that was the deciding factor in the Trojan War. It was a sneeky and underhanded trick to get a small force of armed men inside Troi's deffences, but it worked. Was that cheating or just being sneeky? As for Athena's contest with Arachne Athena did in deed use the clouds to do her weaving which of course caused her to win the contest. However, As Athena herself told Arachne after she had won the contest Arachne didn't tell her that she couldn't use the clouds before the contest started. Again, this could be seen as cheating, but it also could mean Athena was being sneeky and underhanded because the terms of the contest never said that she couldn't use the clouds in her weaving. Sure what she did wasn't fair, but she was only playing by the rules stipulated before the contest started, and they didn't state that using the clouds was prohibited. However, in that particular story we also get to see Athena's compassion for mortals too. after Arachne lost the contest she tried to hang herself with a rope. Athena saw this and turned Arachne into a spider, and made her the master weaver of all the animals. I think that was meant as a belated apology and possibly as a gift of sorts.
On 6/27/10, Bryan Peterson <bpeterson2...@cableone.net> wrote: > Although she did have something of a temper from what I recall, and a > tendency to cheat in all the contests I've ever read about. Arachne was a > case in point, although you're right in that she definitely didn't kill her. > I seem to recall that in one version of the story Arachne actually won the > weaving contest. In another she did lose because Athena used the clouds as > weaving material. Either way of course Arachne ended up as a spider. LOL. I > suppose Ares would probably have killed her without even giving her the > opportunity to prove herself. > We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.