The myth of Arachne and Tereseus have simliar themes running throughout the story. In both stories arachne and Tereseus are dismissing the gods and acting how ever they want with no regards as to what is right. They both dont pay any attention to warnings that they get from the gods. for example the depiction of the screeching owl that lives above Tereseus's house. This could foreshadow the fact that the gods turn tereseus, Philomena and Procne into birds. in the case of Arachne her warning was the old woman telling her to be humble and ask the gods for forgiveness. Arachne did not take this advice and continued to deny Athena as her teacher. Arachne was determined to be known as maybe being self taught, especially since she was just mortal peasant. The passage says "You could see she was taught by Pallas. Yet she denied it, and took offense at the idea of having such a teacher". clearly Arachne was being arrogant and not humble at all. this angered Athena, so she punished Arachne by turning her into a spider. this was all because she decided to take all of the credit and give none to the gods. Arachne just did want she wanted weaving and not giving credit to the apparent true master of the craft without any regard to how Athena would feel about it. In all these myths, the gods have the last say and decide the punishments and do whatever they want in the end. in both of these stories the gods turn the main characters into animals as punishment because they did not like how they were acting.

in the story of Tereus, Tereus took that to the extreme. He didn’t care what anyone thought, he only thought about what he wanted, and what he wanted was Philomena, that was all he thought about after meeting her. the passage says, “…he burnt with his own vice and his nation’s”. This puts the blame not only on Tereus but on the whole country too, the story is saying that this lust Tereus has is a characteristic of all the men from Thrace. Either way, that puts the blame squarely on the mortal humans, with no care or concern for how they should actually be acting and respecting the gods. Tereus was so sure in his opinion and beliefs and that was all that mattered. Both Arachne and Tereus were more focused on their own talents and desires and not how that could affect other things such as their own wife or how the Gods would feel.