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

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

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