Cerberus
-headeg dog that guards the
front to Hades. Offspring of Echidna and Typhoeus. Classical resources are Apollodorus’s Library (2.Five.12), Hesiod’s Theogony (311, 769), Homer’s Iliad (8.368) and Odyssey (eleven.623), Pausanias’s Description of Greece (three.25.6), and Virgil’s Aeneid (6.417–425). Heracles’ Eleventh Labor became to retrieve Cerberus for king Eurystheus of Mycenae. Heracles turned into given in line with-venture by way of Hades, lord of the underworld, to take Cerberus at the circumstance that Heracles subdue the canine with out guns. Heracles grasped it around the neck till Cerberus conceded defeat. Later, Heracles back Cerberus to Hades. A Caeretan black-determine hydria from ca. 530 b.C.E. (Louvre, Paris) suggests the three-headed hound being mastered with the
