Abstract
In her elegant and erudite paper, "A New Web for Arachne," Sarah Iles Johnston has teased out an extraordinary web of significations from a brief epitome of the story of Arachne and Phalanx. Johnston begins with a scholion to Nicander's Theriaca, a didactic poem about dangerous animals and cures for their stings and bites. In commenting on Nicander's use of the word...