god
Cerberus
The three-headed, snake-maned dog who guards the gate of Dis; dragging him up to the light is Hercules's twelfth and last labor.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §1 three necks
Cerberus, the triple-necked hound that guards the river Styx and the gate of the dead.
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §13 Cerberus
The monstrous watchdog of the underworld; Horace's 'hundred-headed beast', here startling the dog-fancier Claudius.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §3.24.18 Cerberus
The many-headed dog that guards the entrance of the underworld; Seneca names him with the 'darkness' and the ghostly dead as the childish bogeys of popular belief about death.
- Hercules (Mad) §798 the savage Stygian dog
Cerberus, the three-headed, snake-maned hound of hell; dragging him to the light is Hercules's last labor.
- Hercules on Oeta §1 black Cerberus
The three-headed hound guarding the underworld, which Hercules dragged up to the daylight as his last labor.
- Hercules on Oeta §466 infernal dog
Cerberus, hound of the underworld, silenced by the Nurse's claimed magic.
- Oedipus §569 Cerberus
The three-headed hound guarding the underworld, who shakes his chains in wrath.
- Phaedra §219 Stygian dog
Cerberus, the hound that guards the gates of the underworld.
- The Trojan Women §413 Cerberus
The many-headed hound guarding the threshold of the underworld; the chorus dismisses him as an empty tale.