The Dog of Hades, by Maurice Bloomfield

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Title: Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea

Author: Maurice Bloomfield

Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19119]

Language: English

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Explanation of Frontispiece

The picture is reproduced from Baumeister's Denkmäler des klassichen Alterthums, volume I., figure 730 (text on p. 663). It is on a vase and describes one of the twelve heroic deeds of Herakles. The latter, holding aloft his club, drags two-headed Cerberus out of Hades by a chain drawn through the jaw of one o

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