Let us consider this more carefully. At the center of her tapestry Minerva depicts the competition she won against Neptune for supremacy over Attica (6.70-82), and at the sides four smaller scenes with stories of arrogant mortals punished by the gods (6.83-100). The structure is dominated by order and symmetry, and has as its subject two themes that clearly mirror the frame situation, and prefigure its outcome (6.70-102)
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               Minerva asserts her truth: a world governed by the justice of the gods, who are represented in their augusta grauitas as vouching for order and hierarchy in the face of the insubordination of mortals. Hers is an example of authoritarian art, celebrating divine power, and a self-representation drawing attention to the threatening power of her military attributes (78-79).
               The truth of Minerva is opposed to that of Arachne, who depicts a gallery of gods in shocking forms full of erotic menace, who assume the most varied animal shapes to deceive and rape innocent mortal women (103-28).