Aeacus laments Heracles's theft of Cerberus and sentences Dionysus to Acheron and torment by hounds of Cocytus, Echidna, the Tartesian eel, and Tithrasian Gorgons.

Although the Greeks and Romans typically scorned Egypt's animal-headed gods as bizarre and primitive ( Anubis was known to be mockingly called " Barker " by the Greeks ), Anubis was sometimes associated with Sirius in the heavens, and Cerberus in Hades.

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.

Capturing Cerberus, without using weapons, was the final labour assigned to Heracles ( Hercules ) by King Eurystheus, in recompense for the killing of his own children by Megara after he was driven insane by Hera, and therefore was the most dangerous and difficult.

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.

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 statue in the Galleria Borghese depicts Cerberus with three heads sitting by the side of Hades, while a bronze sculpture depicting Heracles ' twelfth labour shows the demi-god leading a two-headed Cerberus from the underworld.

The yawning gates of Hades were guarded by the monstrous watchdog Cerberus, whose function was to prevent the living from entering the underworld, and the dead from leaving it.

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.

The Springfield stores, meanwhile, were acquired by an investment group led by Cerberus Capital Management.

** Jewel-Osco ( 2 stores ) located in Springfield, Illinois ( originally acquired by Cerberus )

* SuperValu purchased the Jewel, Acme, Shaw's divisions and the remaining Albertsons stores not acquired by Cerberus.

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.

He owned a two-headed hound named Orthrus, which was the brother of Cerberus, and a herd of magnificent red cattle that were guarded by Orthrus, and a herder Eurytion, son of Erytheia.

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.

* Cerberus, another one of Typhon's sons was a three-headed dog that was employed by Hades as the guardian of the passage way to and from the Underworld.

* Cerberus, a boss in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening

Numerous synonyms were used to make oblique reference to the stone, such as " white stone " ( calculus albus, identified with the calculus candidus of Revelation 2: 17 which was taken as a symbol of the glory of heaven ), vitriol ( as expressed in the backronym Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem ), also lapis noster, lapis occultus, in water at the box, and numerous oblique, mystical or mythological references such as Adam, Aer, Animal, Alkahest, Antidotus, Antimonium, Aqua benedicta, Aqua volans per aeram, Arcanum, Atramentum, Autumnus, Basilicus, Brutorum cor, Bufo, Capillus, Capistrum auri, Carbones, Cerberus, Chaos, Cinis cineris, Crocus, Dominus philosophorum, Divine quintessence, Draco elixir, Filius ignis, Fimus, Folium, Frater, Granum, Granum frumenti, Haematites, Hepar, Herba, Herbalis, Lac, Melancholia, Ovum philosophorum, Panacea salutifera, Pandora, Phoenix, Philosophic mercury, Pyrites, Radices arboris solares, Regina, Rex regum, Sal metallorum, Salvator terrenus, Talcum, Thesaurus, Ventus hermetis.

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.

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 guarding the entrance to the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Heracles was able to overpower Cerberus and proceeded to sling the beast over his back, dragging it out of the underworld through a cavern entrance in the Peloponnese and bringing it to Eurystheus.

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.

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.

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.

Capturing Cerberus alive was the twelfth and final labour of Heracles.

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.

The singular uncompromising force of their revolt against the cult of restraint is illustrated by their refusal to dance in a public place.

The new spirit, so well illustrated by Mr. Lyford's work, is wholly free of this anxiety.

In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how to think about this new experience, how to exercise restraint.

Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

The impact of technological factors is also illustrated by the history of the high-energy fuel program.

In the electronics industry, this tendency is well illustrated by inventories of TV sets.

They're followed by the front and rear bulkheads as illustrated.

Another specimen of such double-entendre is illustrated by a woman in a department store.

Something of the behavior of clouds of small particles can be illustrated by the following field trials:

The behavior of a biological aerosol, on a much smaller scale, is illustrated by a specific field trial conducted with a non-pathogenic organism.

The second situation is illustrated by the operator T on Af ( F any field ) represented in the standard basis by Af.

The general basis on which these common costs are assigned to differently measured units of service will be illustrated by the following highly simplified problem of an electric-utility cost analysis.

This problem is illustrated by the fact that many local churches drop from the active membership rolls each year as many as they receive into the fellowship.

He leafed through the light reading provided by Mrs. Kirby for her guests: four separate adventures of the Bobbsey Twins ( At the Seashore, At the Mountains, On the Farm, and In Danger ) and several agricultural bulletins on the treatment of hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle, hideously illustrated.

Animalia coverAnimalia ( ISBN 0810918684 ) is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base.

In comedy, several players are emerging in the image of the very popular Rouiched which is illustrated in several films such as Hassan Terro or Hassan Taxi, or actor Hadj Abderrahmane better known under the pseudonym of the Inspector Tahar in 1973 comedy The Holiday of The Inspector Tahar directed by Musa Haddad.

The comic book series Cerebus The Aardvark ( created, written and illustrated by Dave Sim ) features an aardvark as its protagonist.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

All three books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.

* Year In, Year Out ( 1952 ) ( illustrated by E. H. Shepard )

* Winnie-the-Pooh ( 1926 ) ( illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard )

* The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ) ( illustrated by E. H. Shepard )

* When We Were Very Young ( 1924 ) ( illustrated by E. H. Shepard )