 The answer might appear among the particular manufactured objects that these passages refer to, because for the reader familiar with Greek religion both rankings evoke Athena. The couch- and table-making carpenter practices a trade whose patron is Athena, while myths known to Plato depict her as the original user of both flute (Pindar 12th Pythian Ode) and bridle (Pindar 13th Olympian Ode). If these associations stand up under scrutiny, they put the imitator at the opposite pole from a god, rendering the products of imitation not only lowly nothings but malevolently profane, even blasphemous (Pappas 2013).