Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

Re:Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify by IgorPartola on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:52PM (#28489055)

Pedantic stuff incoming: Medusa was actually a young maiden who was raped and shamed into isolation which is what drove her mad. She wasn’t a monster, she became one in reaction to what was done to her. From Wikipedia:

> In a late version of the Medusa myth, by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.794–803), Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, but when Poseidon had sex with her in Minerva's (i.e. Athena's) temple,[7] Athena punished Medusa by transforming her beautiful hair into horrible snakes.

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Re:Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify by dannyw on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:51PM (#28489298)

Additional context from Wikipedia:

> Whether Ovid means that Medusa was a willing participant is unclear. Hard, p. 61, says she was "seduced"; Grimal, s.v. Gorgons, p. 174, says she was "ravished"; Tripp, s.v. Medusa, p. 363 says she "yielded". In the original Latin text, Ovid uses the verb "vitiasse" which is translated to mean "violate" or "corrupt".

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Re:Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify by boringg on Monday September 13, 2021 @03:19PM (#28515568)

Well thank you for the clarification - I never knew of Medusa's origin just the later part of the myth.

I am still unsure how the name of the company relates though, and I would wager that most people only know the later part of the myth than the origins.

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