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CERBERUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 760 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CERBERUS , in See also:

Greek See also:mythology, the See also:dog who guarded the entrance to the See also:lower See also:world. He allowed all to enter, but seized those who attempted to See also:escape. According to See also:Hesiod (Theog. 311), he was a fifty-headed See also:monster with a fearful bark, the offspring of See also:Typhon and See also:Echidna. He was variouslyrepresented with one, two or (usually) three heads, often with the tail of a snake or with See also:snakes growing from his See also:head or twined See also:round his See also:body. One of the tasks imposed upon Heracles was to fetch Cerberus from below to the upper world, a favourite subject of See also:ancient See also:vase-paintings.

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