Spider
animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
spiders · little spiders · the airy-swinging spider · the spider
spoken of as
1 expressionSpiders2 mentions
Frogs (Greek) · Memorabilia (Greek)
and you spiders under the roof, along the corners, twirl-i-i-irl with your fingers the loom-wrought weavings, the labours of the singing shuttle, where the flute-loving dolphin leaped about the dark-prowed beaks, oracles and race-courses, the gladness of the vine-blossom, the pain-stilling tendril of the grape.
in the texts
Frogs
Spiders invoked as an image in the parodied lyric ode.
and you spiders under the roof, along the corners, twirl-i-i-irl with your fingers the loom-wrought weavings, the labours of the singing shuttle, where the flute-loving dolphin leaped about the dark-prowed beaks, oracles and race-courses, the gladness of the vine-blossom, the pain-stilling tendril of the grape.
On the Nature of the Gods
Cited as an example of instinctive skill in web-weaving for food.
To some, too, a kind of contrivance and skill has been given, as among the little spiders some weave, as it were, a net, that they may dispatch whatever has stuck in it, while others watch, as it were, from an unexpected place, and, if anything falls in, seize it and consume it.
Works and Days
A spider whose web-spinning in daylight is offered as a natural sign marking the excellence of the twelfth day.
but the twelfth is much better than the eleventh, for on it the airy-swinging spider spins its web in full day, and then the Wise One, gathers her pile.
Meditations
An animal used as an analogy for misplaced pride in petty or violent conquest.
The spider is proud when it has caught a fly;
Memorabilia
Creatures whose web-weaving is used as a comparison for contrivance.
Much more conveniently, I assure you, than the spiders.