Cerberus

Hades is one of the three son of Kronus and Rhea, his symbol is a Cerberus or three headed dog, and was also one of 12 Olympians. He was the god of the death, god of wealth, and a very frightening character, he was also disliked by many humans and gods. Although thought to be evil, he was just an idea for death and after life for the other gods. Hades was the god of the dead and ruler of the underworld. He took Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, and made her his queen. He was characterized as…

Hercules in the twelfth labor had to capture Cerberus and bring him to the world of the living. Ensuing the permission of Hades to capture Cerberus, Hercules accomplished the task after a strenuous fight and returned the beast back to it’s home in the underworld. Cerberus second encounter was with Orpheus who was proficient at the lyre. Orpheus wanted his wife returned from the land of the dead who passed away and was taken from him. To get past Cerberus, Orpheus played his lyre so beautifully…

The groupings of three lines sustained throughout the piece add to the imagery of the divine trinity, the tension between heaven, hell, and earth, and the three heads of Cerberus. There is end rhyme though it is used sparingly. “Choking the aged and the meek, / The weak” line (17-18). She wraps the ending of the 18th line even though it was not necessary. She does this to allow for “meek” and “weak” to rhyme. Another line…

Magicians). The Gluttons punishment is that they wallow in mud in the cold rain as Cerberus feasts on them, and the Sorcerer's heads are twisted backward and are forced to walk rearward as they weep. However, are the punishments that Dante describes just or unjust?…

to lead readers to connect the creature to Greek mythology’s monster, the three-headed dog named Cerberus whose tail is fashioned like a dragon. It is the guard of the gates of the Kingdom of the Dead in the Underworld called Hades and its duty is to keep away all living creatures separate from the dead ones in the Underworld. (Hamilton, p) is a similar task that Fluffy performs in the novels. Cerberus is more dangerous than Fluffy because of his toxic vomit out of which a lethal plant called…

until he was shot by an arrow in his heel, and died, the term Achilles heel was coined from the situation in this novel. Charon, an old ferry man takes all the dead into the underworld via the River Styx, and there was a dog with a dragon tail named Cerberus that allowed the souls to only enter and never escae, he was the protector of the River…

believed the dead went to in afterlife. For one, the house of Trimalchio as well as the contents in it, are directly related to the Underworld are described in a way that mirror the Underworld of Roman mythology. While the the dog can be related to Cerberus from that mythology and the actions of the guests in the bath mirror the punishments in Tartarus. Therefore in Petronius’s…

The Inferno has influenced people around the world for almost 700 years. Most people think of Hell as a place where you don’t want to go and is miserable. This is because the Inferno is the basis of what we think of hell. The Inferno is a poem that Dante Alighieri wrote in 1320 about his fictional journey through Hell. The Inferno is the first of three sections of the Divine Comedy and would become one of the most famous books of its time. Throughout the poem, the reader can tell that Dante uses…

Hephaestus/Vulcan Hephaestus is the god of fire, the only ugly and lame god among the beautiful immortal gods. Although it is said he was originally shunned for his appearance, he was later revered by the mortals, for he was the patron of metal-working, one of the most important jobs. However, when he was born, it is said his mother tried to get rid of him, ashamed of his physical deformities. He is very calm and peaceful, and spends most of his time working in his workshop. In some stories,…

The Divine Comedy is a three part series, written by Dante Alighieri, which describes the frustrations he felt, while in exile, pertaining to Florentine politics. The first part in the series, The Inferno, depicts Dante’s pilgrimage into the underworld of Hell. The epic describes Dante’s descent in an attempt to get back on a spiritual path. The Inferno was created with the purpose of telling the politics of Florence and combining ideas of Pagan and Greek religion (“Literary Background”).…