User blog comment:Emptylord/Champion reworks/Elise the Spider Queen/@comment-3493296-20150216133712/@comment-8506165-20150218165312

Well Arachne in Greek mythology was transformed into a spider outright, as far as I know, not a half-human half-spider hybrid, although that does totally sound like something the Greeks would be all for.

The half-spider interpretations of that do probably precede driders, though. No idea how tauric those are, though.