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Cephalus ()- Cephalus and Aurora, George Benda (1722-1795)
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Ceramus (Keramos)
Cerastes
Heracles (Hercules) and the Cerberus, Louvre Museum E701 , Paris
CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance. Cerberus is known to have had three heads, and some of the poets have credited him with as many as a hundred. Professor Graybill, whose clerky erudition and profound knowledge of Greek give his opinion great weight, has averaged all the estimates, and makes the number twenty-seven -- a judgment that would be entirely conclusive is Professor Graybill had known (a) something about dogs, and (b) something about arithmetic. Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Some of the Greek poets state that Heracles brought up the hound of Hades here, though there is no road that leads underground through the cave, and it is not easy to believe that the gods possess any underground dwelling where the souls collect. But Hecataeus of Miletus gave a plausible explanation, stating that a terrible serpent lived on Taenarum, and was called the hound of Hades, because any one bitten was bound to die of the poison at once, and it was this snake, he said, that was brought by Heracles to Eurystheus. Pausanias |
Cerberus (), Cerberus, The Dog of Hades, The History of an Idea by Maurice Bloomfield
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Cercyon
Cerdo
Ceres (Roman version of Demeter)
Ceroessa
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