Cerberus

Family: Infernal beings · Role: three-headed dog · First appears: Fable 83

Fable 83

• with Hercules (Hercules drags Cerberus from the Infernal Regions.) “There was a story among the ancients, that when Cerberus was dragged by Hercules from the Infernal Regions, a certain man, through fear of Hercules, hid himself in a cave; and that on peeping out, and beholding Cerberus, he was changed into a stone by his fright.”

Also listed in Infernal Beings — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.