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Occasionally in Roman art Cerberus is shown with a large central lion head and two smaller dog heads on either side. [131] Heracles with club in his right hand raised over head and leash in left hand drives ahead of him a two-headed Cerberus with mane down his necks and back and a snake tail. A neck-amphora (c. 530–515 BC) from Vulci (Munich ...
According to Hesiod, Cerberus, like Orthrus was the offspring of Echidna and Typhon. And like Orthrus, Cerberus was multi-headed. The earliest accounts gave Cerberus fifty, [20] or even one hundred heads, [21] though in literature three heads for Cerberus became the standard. [22] However, in art, often only two heads for Cerberus are shown. [23]
Goddess Hel and the hellhound Garmr by Johannes Gehrts, 1889. A hellhound is a mythological hound that embodies a guardian or a servant of hell, the devil, or the underworld.. Hellhounds occur in mythologies around the world, with the best-known examples being Cerberus from Greek mythology, Garmr from Norse mythology, the black dogs of English folklore, and the fairy hounds of Celtic mythol
Articles relating to Cerberus, his depictions, and his mythical counterparts.He is the hound of Hades, a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving.
In Greek mythology, Cerberus (/ ˈ s ɜːr b ər ə s /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κέρβερος Kérberos) may refer to a character and a mythical canine: Cerberus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Same along with other 22 wooers. [ 2 ]
Heracles and Cerberus Hercules and Cerberus. The twelfth and final labour was the capture of Cerberus, the multi-headed dog that was the guardian of the gates of the Underworld. To prepare for his descent into the Underworld, Heracles went to Eleusis to be initiated in the Eleusinian Mysteries. He entered the Underworld with Hermes and Athena ...
Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...
In Greek mythology, Styx (/ ˈ s t ɪ k s /; Ancient Greek: Στύξ; lit. "Shuddering" [ 1 ] ), also called the River Styx , is a goddess and one of the rivers of the Greek Underworld . Her parents were the Titans Oceanus and Tethys , and she was the wife of the Titan Pallas and the mother of Zelus , Nike , Kratos , and Bia .