Cerberus

First appears: Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

Life events

Hercules captures Cerberus and brings him out of Hades.(Apollodorus, Library 2.5 · 📍 Hades)
- With: Heracles
- “Hercules found him at the gates of Acheron, and, cased in his cuirass and covered by the lion's skin, he flung his arms round the head of the brute, and though the dragon in its tail bit him, he never relaxed his grip and pressure till it yielded. So he carried it off and ascended through Troezen .”
Echidna and Typhaon produce Orthus and Cerberus.(Hesiod, Theogony 295-404)
- With: Echidna Typhon Orthus
- “So she conceived and brought forth fierce offspring; first she bare Orthus the hound of Geryones, and then again she bare a second, a monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, Cerberus who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound of Hades, fifty-headed, relentless and strong.”

parent: Echidna “and then again she bare a second, a monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, Cerberus who eats raw flesh”
parent: Typhon “Typhaon the terrible, outrageous and lawless, was joined in love to her, the maid with glancing eyes. So she conceived and brought forth fierce offspring; first she bare Orthus the hound of Geryones, and then again she bare a second, a monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, Cerberus”

courtship with Penelope “Antisthenes, Cerberus, Perimedes”
admired: Penelope “And from Samethere came twenty—three:— Agelaus, Pisander, Elatus, Ctesippus, Hippodochus, Eurystratus, Archemolus, Ithacus, Pisenor, Hyperenor, Pheroetes, Antisthenes, Cerberus, Perimedes, Cynnus, Thriasus, Eteoneus, Clytius, Prothous, Lycaethus, Eumelus, Itanus, Lyammus.”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.