In a rarer version, surviving in the scholia of an unnamed scholiast on Nicander, whose works heavily influenced Ovid, Arachne is placed in Attica instead and has a brother named Phalanx. Athena taught Arachne the art of weaving and Phalanx the art of war, but when brother and sister laid together in bed, Athena was so disgusted with them that she turned them both into spiders, animals forever doomed to be eaten by their own young.
In a rarer ,version, surviving in the scholia of an unnamed scholiast on Nicander whose works heavily influenced Ovid, Arachne is placed in Attica instead and has a brother named Phalanx Athena taught Arachne the art of weaving and Phalanx the art of war, but when brother and sister laid together in bed, Athena was so disgusted with them that s.he turned them both into spiders, animals forever doomed to be eaten by their own young.