CERBERUS  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, the See also:

• DOG

dog who guarded the entrance to the See also:

• LOWER

lower See also:

• WORLD

world . He allowed all to enter, but seized those who attempted to See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape . According to See also:

• HESIOD

Hesiod (Theog . 311), he was a fifty-headed See also:

• MONSTER (Lat. monstrum, from root of monere, to warn; i.e. something terrible or portentous)
• MONSTER, GEORG, COUNT ZU (1776-1844)

monster with a fearful bark, the offspring of See also:

• TYPHON (TYPHAON, TYPHOEUS)

Typhon and See also:

• ECHIDNA, or PORCUPINE

Echidna . He was variouslyrepresented with one, two or (usually) three heads, often with the tail of a snake or with See also:

• SNAKES

snakes growing from his See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head or twined See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round his See also:

• BODY

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
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• VASE
• VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)

vase-paintings .