Cerberus featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature and in works of both ancient and modern art and architecture, although the depiction and background surrounding Cerberus often differed across various works by different authors of the era.

The common depiction of Cerberus in Greek mythology and art is as having three heads.

The depiction of Cerberus is relatively consistent between different works and authors, the common theme of the mane of serpents is kept across works, as is the serpent's tail, most literary works of the era describe Cerberus as having three heads with the only notable exception being Hesiod's Theogony in which he had 50 heads.

There have been many attempts to explain the depiction of Cerberus.

In the ancient Greek myth about the Labours of Hercules, the hero Hercules had to travel to the underworld to capture Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog, as one of his tasks.

An ancient Etruscan vase from Caere ( ca 525 BC ) depicting Heracles presenting Cerberus to Eurystheus.

Most occurrences in ancient literature revolve around the basis of the threat of Cerberus being overcome to allow a living being access to the underworld ; in the Aeneid Cerberus was lulled to sleep after being tricked into eating drugged honeycakes and Orpheus put the creature to sleep with his music.

Numerous references to Cerberus have appeared in ancient Greek and Roman art, found in archaeological ruins and often including in statues and architecture, inspired by the mythology of the creature.

Many of the game's elements are inspired by Greek mythology or ancient Roman culture such as weapons, equipment, items and enemy designs ; Princess Athena herself is named after the Greek goddess Athena, while Dante is based on Cerberus.

In The Capture of Cerberus Professor Liskeard speaks of the " Criminal Code of Hammurabi " and correctly dates it to 1800 BC, however he goes on to speak of older Sumerian laws quoting, " If a wife hateth her husband and saith unto him, ' Thou art not my husband ' they shall throw her into the river.

There is specific mention in " The Capture of Cerberus " to the fact that there has been a gap of twenty years between Poirot's previous meeting with Countess Rossakoff and this one.

Cerberus (), or Kerberos, ( Greek form: Κέρβερος, ) in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed hound ( usually three-headed ) which guards the gates of the Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping.

Each of Cerberus ' heads is said to have an appetite only for live meat and thus allow only the spirits of the dead to freely enter the underworld, but allow none to leave.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Canto VI, the " great worm " Cerberus is found in the Third Circle of Hell, where he oversees and rends to pieces those who have succumbed to gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins.

In the constellation Cerberus introduced by Johannes Hevelius in 1687, Cerberus is sometimes substituted for the " branch from the tree of the golden apples " fetched by Atlas from the garden of the Hesperides.

Classical critics have identified one of the earliest works of Cerberus as " the most imaginative ," that being a Laconian vase created around 560 BC in which Cerberus is shown with three-heads and with rows of serpents covering his body and heads.

Dan Quayle joined Cerberus Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm, in 1999 and is chairman of the company's Global Investments division.

* HMAS Cerberus the area of the naval base is a bounded locality

The brand was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928, passed through the short-lived DaimlerChrysler merger of 1998 – 2007 as part of the Chrysler Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC, which has an alliance with Fiat.

In Hades, his is the only shade that does not flee Heracles, who has come after Cerberus.

Garmr is sometimes seen as a hellhound, comparable to Cerberus.

Due to good communications to Amsterdam, the town is home to a number of boutique international firms such as Bain & Co and Cerberus Capital Management.

* Cerberus: The watchdog of Hades, it is an oracular metaphor for Cleon ( line 1030 ) and it receives a mention in two other plays.

The three-headed canine is apparently Cerberus.

For the eleventh labour Heracles had to steal the Apples of the Hesperides ; his final labour was to capture Cerberus, the three-headed hound that guarded the entrance to Hades.

* February 11 – Operation Cerberus A flotilla of Kriegsmarine ships dash from Brest through the English Channel to northern ports ; the British fail to sink any one of them.

Serpent elements figure among his offspring ; among his children by Echidna are: Cerberus ( a monstrous three-headed dog with a snake for a tail and a serpentine mane ); the serpent-tailed Chimaera ; the serpent-like chthonic water beast Lernaean Hydra ; and the hundred-headed serpentine dragon Ladon.

Thundershaft has a Cerberus ; Phibes presents him with a large Cerberus figure, one head of which shoots string to tie him up, followed by the second head which spouts gasoline, and the third which issues fire.

In 1777 Bushnell attempted to use a floating mine to blow up the HMS Cerberus in Niantic Bay ; the mine struck a small boat near the Cerberus and detonated, destroying the vessel, but not the intended target.

The Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) gave its antitrust approval of the deal in late September ; as a result, that October 1, Sinclair took over the management of the stations from the Nexstar Broadcasting Group through time brokerage agreements Cerberus would then pay Nexstar a portion of Sinclair's purchase price —$ 6. 7 million — to terminate the outsourcing agreement, which was set to expire in March 2012, five months early.

Tri Polyta ( formally PT Tri Polyta Indonesia Tbk ) brought a lawsuit in the district court of Serang, naming ninety-seven defendants, including AIM Capital Management, Houston, Texas ; Cargill Financial Services Corp., Minnetonka, Minn .; Invista Capital Management, Des Moines, Iowa ; BNP Paribas Asset Management, New York ; Oaktree Capital Management, Los Angeles, Calif .; Cerberus Capital Management, New York ; Euroclear, Brussels, Belgium ; Millennium Partners, New York.

The gun was named Cerberus in reference to the multi-headed hound with the same name from Greek and Roman mythology ; the gun has three barrels as Cerberus has three heads.

But the tower itself speaks to Psyche and tells her the route that will allow her to enter the Underworld alive and return again, as well as telling her how to get past Cerberus ( by giving the three-headed dog a small cake ); how to avoid other dangers on the way there and back ; and most importantly, to eat nothing but coarse bread in the underworld, as eating anything else would trap her there forever.

Formed in 1992 as a blackened death metal act under the name Cerberus by founding members ; Christian " Christer " Schütz, Stefan Weinerhall who stayed with the band to the end, and Johan who left shortly afterward.

; Cerberus: A three-headed dog known to guard the gates of the underworld in Greek mythology.

Vincent has three basic gun frames available to him ; a three barrel handgun called Cerberus, a rifle called Hydra, and a machine gun called Griffon.

With his ( i. e., Osiris ') wife, Isis, and their son ( at this point in history ) Horus ( in the form of Harpocrates ), Serapis won an important place in the Greek world, reaching Ancient Rome, with Anubis being identified as Cerberus.

The Epicureans believed that the soul was a thin tissue of atoms that dissipated into the cosmos upon death, and that conventional mythological views of the afterlife and its geography and inhabitants were inane fictions — a view encapsulated by a funeral inscription at Rome that reads: Do not go forth nor pass along without reading me ; but stop, listen to me and do not leave before you have been instructed: there is no crossing ferry to Hades, nor Charon the ferryman, nor Aeacus holding the keys, nor the dog Cerberus.

Today the bay is mostly used for recreation, however there is also a military base ( HMAS Cerberus ), shipping and oil production facilities adjoining the bay.

Heracles found Hades and asked permission to bring Cerberus to the surface, which Hades agreed to if Heracles could overpower the beast without using weapons.

When Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children began development, the Square Enix staff agreed that one title from Compilation of Final Fantasy VII was not enough to cover the entire world, and so Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cerberus and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII were conceived so as to embrace more aspects.

Kitase explained that when development for Advent Children began, the team agreed that one title was not enough to cover the entire world of Final Fantasy VII, and thus Before Crisis, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII were conceived so as to embrace more aspects.

Hercules found Hades and asked permission to bring Cerberus to the surface, which Hades agreed to if Hercules could overpower the beast without using weapons.

On January 23, 2006, Supervalu announced that it, along with CVS Corporation and a collection of investors led by Cerberus Group, agreed to acquire Albertsons, Inc. for $ 9. 7 billion.

On February 7, 2007, CBS agreed to sell seven of its smaller-market stations to Cerberus Capital Management ( including WTVX, WTCN, WWHB and WLWC ) for $ 185 million.

On February 7, 2007, CBS agreed to sell seven of its smaller-market stations to Cerberus Capital Management for $ 185 million dollars.