From 1851c7ca88579a492a6307e123424d9c9e800dcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PatR Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 11:23:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update Medusa's data.base entry The second paragraph about Medusa is an excerpt from Bulfinch's Mythology, but first paragraph is not. Insert an empty attribution line between them. Also, remove the reference to Graeae from the introduction since it contradicts Bulfinch, which describes them as "three sisters who were gray-haired from their birth" and Gorgons as "monstrous females with huge teeth, brazen claws, and snaky hair". --- dat/data.base | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index 33bc5b33a..d6fe8ab5e 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # NetHack 3.7 data.base -# $NHDT-Date: 1608767189 2020/12/23 23:46:29 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.99 $ +# $NHDT-Date: 1684001509 2023/05/13 18:11:49 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.106 $ # Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team # Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers # NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. @@ -3333,12 +3333,19 @@ huge chunk of meat [ Grace Before Meat, by Robert Burns ] # nethack's Medusa doesn't match the myth very closely, particularly in # how reflection is involved, but that's par for the course +# +# this used to begin "Medusa, one of the three Gorgons or Graeae" as +# if Graeae and Gorgons where the same thing, but Bulfinch's Mythology +# indicates that they are quite different; since the first paragraph is +# a made-up introduction to an excerpt from that work, the contradictory +# mention of Graeae has been removed medusa perseus shield of reflection - Medusa, one of the three Gorgons or Graeae, is the only one - of her sisters to have assumed mortal form and inhabited the - dungeon world. + Medusa, one of the three Gorgons, is the only one of her + sisters to have assumed mortal form and inhabited the dungeon + world. + [] When Perseus was grown up Polydectes sent him to attempt the conquest of Medusa, a terrible monster who had laid waste the