Cerberus | Kerberos guarding the entrance to the courtyard

* Cerberus, the hound of Hades ( Kerberos in Greek )

* Kerberos, a more common name for Cerberus ( Cardcaptor Sakura )

" The presence of Cerberus ( Kerberos ) at Taenarum ( Tainaron ) is mentioned by Strabōn, Statios, and Seneca.

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.

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.

Cerberus was the offspring of Echidna, a hybrid half-woman and half-serpent, and Typhon, a fire-breathing giant whom even the Greek gods feared.

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

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.

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.

A 2nd century CE Greek known as Heraclitus the paradoxographer --- not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus --- claimed Euhemeristically that Cerberus had two pups which were never away from their father, as such Cerberus was in fact a normal ( however very large ) dog but artists incorporating the two pups into their work made it appear as if his two children were in fact extra heads.

In Greek mythology, Orthrus ( Orthros ) or Orthus ( Orthos ) () was a two-headed dog and a doublet (" brother ") of Cerberus, both whelped by the chthonic monsters Echidna and Typhon.

In Greek mythology, it was also the name of an underground cavern, through which Heracles dragged Cerberus as one of his Twelve Labors.

Bruce Lincoln brings together Garmr and the Greek mythological dog Cerberus, deriving both names from a Proto-Indo-European root * ger-" to growl " ( perhaps with the suffixes -* m /* b and -* r ).

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.

* Bine ( mythology ), a guardian of hell in Akkadian mythology, comparable with Cerberus from Greek mythology

Concerning his name, it is unclear if there is an association with the Greek Cerberus.

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.

According to Greek mythology, the cave guarded by the three-headed dog Cerberus is located near the town.

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.

Two forms are available in Dirge of Cerberus ; the Galian Beast ( which sees Vincent transform into a large creature with enhanced speed and strength for about 30 seconds ), and Chaos, Vincent's most powerful form, which is available only in the final stages of the game and is not optional.

In an attempt to tackle the financial problems the owners restructured the business, and injected fresh capital in the form of £ 200m via loans by the owners Cerberus Capital, Bank of Scotland and GMAC.

* Cardcaptor Sakura ( Cerberus ( true form ))

* Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card ( Cerberus ( true form ))

Other notable recent appearances include The Venture Bros., in the episodes " Escape to the House of Mummies Part II ," " I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills ," and " The Better Man ," in which he played Dr. Orpheus's master – who appears in the form of Cerberus, Catherine the Great's horse and, in " The Better Man ", both Dr. Orpheus's ex-wife and a future Dean Venture, respectively.

In Greek and Roman mythology, Medea tried to kill Theseus by poisoning him by putting aconite in his wine, in that culture thought to be the saliva of Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guarded the Underworld.

A mosaic depicting the hero Herakles with Cerberus, a three headed dog, who, according to mythology, guarded Hades.

On the veranda are 14 azulejo panels representing figures from mythology, with many showing the " Labours of Hercules ", including " Plutão e Cérbero " ( Plutoand Cerberus ), " Vénus " ( Venus ), " Neptuno " ( Neptune ), " Hércules " ( Hercules ), " Hércules e a égua de Diómedes " ( Hercules and the Mares of Diomedes ), " Figura masculina " ( Masculine figure ), " Figura masculina com arco e flechas " ( Masculine figure with bow and arrow ), two panels of " Figura feminina " ( Female figure ), " Hércules e a ave de Estinfália " ( Hercules and the Stymphalian birds ), " Figura masculina com machado " ( Masculine figure with hoe ), " Hércules e a serpente de Ládon " ( Hercules and the serpent Ladon ), " Hércules e o touro de Creta " ( Hercules and the Cretan Bull ), " Hércules e a Hidra de Lerna " ( Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra ).

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

At the gate, there is a dog named Cerberus, after the three-headed dog of Hades in Greek mythology.

Its closest analogue in Greek mythology is Cerberus, in its guardianship of hell.

The most famous hellhound is probably Cerberus from Greek mythology.

In 1905 he published Cerberus, the Dog of Hades, a study in comparative mythology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cerberus ' depiction in ancient art is not as definitive as in literature ; the poets and linguists of ancient Greece and Rome mostly agreed on the physical appearance ( with the notable exception in Hesiod's Theogony in which he had 50 heads ).

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.