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  2. The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Wikipedia

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    The Fifth Head of Cerberus is the title of both a novella and a single-volume collection of three novellas, written by American science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe, both published in 1972. The novella was included in the anthology Nebula Award Stories Eight .

  3. Fifth Head of Cereberus - Wikipedia

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  4. Cerberus - Wikipedia

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    Ovid, also makes Cerberus the cause of the poisonous aconite, saying that on the "shores of Scythia", upon leaving the underworld, as Cerberus was being dragged by Heracles from a cave, dazzled by the unaccustomed daylight, Cerberus spewed out a "poison-foam", which made the aconite plants growing there poisonous. [77]

  5. Gene Wolfe - Wikipedia

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    He first received critical attention for The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Scribner's, 1972) that examined a "colonial mentality within an orthodox science fiction framework". [21] It was published in German and French-language editions within the decade. [11] His best-known and most highly regarded work is the multi-volume novel The Book of the New Sun.

  6. The Book of the New Sun - Wikipedia

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    During the years when The Book of the New Sun was published, Wolfe published two stories from it separately: "Foila's Story: The Armiger's Daughter" (one of the entries in the story-telling contest in the Pelerines' hospital) and "The Tale of the Student and his Son" (one of the two stories that Severian reproduces from a book he obtained for Thecla when she was imprisoned).

  7. A 2,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus Was Just Unsealed—and the Mummy ...

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    Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...

  8. Orthrus - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Cerbera - Wikipedia

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    The genus is named after Cerberus, a three-headed dog in Greek mythology, because all the species are poisonous — they contain cerberin, a cardiac glycoside, a substance that blocks electric impulses in the body (including the beating of the heart). Therefore, it is advised to avoid using wood from Cerbera species due to their toxicity, and ...