Ovid's books 4 and 6

The two myths that I chose to discuss are the Minydes and Arachne.  The myth of Minydes is an interesting one.  It is the tale of three sisters who decided to go against the norm and not worship the Dionysus. All of the women are ordered to stop what ever they are doing to worship Dionysus when it is the appropriate time to do so.  When it was time to do so the three sisters just went about there everyday normal activities including work.  Dionysus did not like this and he punished them by turning them into bats.  He then proceeded to invite them to his ritual ceremony but they declined the offer.  The god got even more mad at them and he himself decided to metamorphose himself into three different animals.  A bull, a lion, and a panther.  This drove the three sisters to a state of madness and they were soon eager to honor the god.  In the myth about Arachne I see similar concepts.   Arachne as well did not like what the goddess of wisdom had to say to her so and did not acknowledge her.  The goddess got mad and challenge Arachne and another weaver to compete.  The mortal ends up making a better tapestry and Arachne is furious because the person was only a mortal.  She rips up the tapestry and destroyed the girls face.  The goddess was then turned into a spider.  There is common theme between these two myths.  The theme that is common in both would be disobeying the gods and going against the norm.  I feel like in both myths the women were determined to be something different from what the gods wanted them to be.  They did not care about rebelling and not honoring the gods.  They lived there life the way they wanted to, until they finally got punished for being I guess a rebel.  They were punished both by being turned into an animal thats what I found to be most common between the two.  Punishing them this way I feel like made sense because they misbehaved when they were there human selves so now that they are these animals either they continue to behave poorly or change.  Another though I had especially relating to the myth of Arachne is that I found it ironic that she was turned into a spider because she weaves and spiders weave webs.