When the people heard this resolve of his, they came and told him there was a pitiless dragon in human disguise in the Haunted Cave, a dread creature which no knight had yet been bold enough to face, and begged him to rid the land of its desolating presence.
Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a single poem of fifteen books, which was probably completed around a.d. 8. By writing the Metamorphoses in dactylic hexameter, the meter of epic, Ovid intentionally invited comparisons with the greatest Roman poet of his age, Virgil, who had written the epic the Aeneid.
Overall, with the story of Arachne in his Metamorphoses, Ovid uses the challenge of a mortal against a powerful goddess and the destruction of a weaving to represent censorship of literature by the Roman government. Ovid describes the parts of the loom and how they are used in great detail in the story of Arachne.