One main story that Minerva is found in is in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In the myth, Arachne, a girl from Lydia, boasted that she was better at weaving than Minerva. So, Minerva disguises herself as an old woman and tells Arachne to take it back. However, Arachne think’s she’s better than this old lady, and tells her that she’s too old to know what she’s talking about. Furthermore, she demands that Minerva come and take up her challenge. This made Minerva mad, so she transformed into herself and agreed to “battle” Arachne in a weaving competition. Both of them did their best work, trying to make a tapestry that would outshine their opponent’s. Minerva’s tapestry showed all of the main Greek gods, with Minerva in the middle, right in the act of