 In the myth of Arachne, told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Arachne depicts Poseidon seducing Canace as a bull in her tapestry of the male gods and their various love affairs.Her story was also put to the stage in the verse tragedy "Canace" (1588), by Italian playwright Sperone Speroni, as well as being the subject of a tale in Gower's "Confessio Amantis".She also gave her name to the heroine of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Squire's Tale".