Originally Posted by nextchall
AIM LOW = SHOOT LOW = SELL LOW = PRICE HIGH = SHORT LIFE!
I think this is the wrong approach..but I am not one of the three heads of Cerberus!
Well, I have mixed thoughts about this
; i.e. I'd { We'd } like to have the Challengers around 'fore-ever' and yet would like 'my' [ but cannot afford one anyways
!!!] car to be special-like-one-of -a -kind ; like not seeing a lot around ! Anyways, I did a bit of probing
, [noticed a possible mis-spelling ? ] and kind of gives me the "jeebers"
:KERBEROS Greek NameTransliterationLatin SpellingTranslation
KerberoVKerberosCerberusDeath-Demon of the
Dark? (kêr, erebos) Kuna tou `Aidou Kuna tou Aidou Cyna Hadum Hound of Hades
Heracles & Cerberus, Caeretan black-figure
hydria C6th B.C., Musée du Louvre
KERBEROS (or Cerberus) was the gigantic hound which guarded the gates of
Haides.
He was posted to prevent ghosts of the dead from leaving the underworld. Kerberos was described as a three-headed dog with a serpent's tail, a mane of snakes, and a lion's claws. Some say he had fifty heads, though this number might have included the heads of his serpentine mane.
Herakles was sent to fetch Kerberos forth from the underworld as one of his twelve labours, a task which he accomplished through the grace of
Persephone.
PARENTS[1.1]
TYPHOEUS &
EKHIDNA (Hesiod Theogony 310, Quintus Smyrnaeus 6.260, Hyginus Pref & Fab 30)
[1.2]
EKHIDNA (Bacchylides Frag 5, Ovid Metamorphoses 7.412)
ENCYCLOPEDIA
CE′RBERUS (Kerberos), the many-headed dog that guarded the entrance of Hades, is mentioned as early as the Homeric poems, but simply as "the dog," and without the name of Cerberus. (
Il. viii. 368,
Od. xi. 623.) Hesiod, who is the first that gives his name and origin, calls him (
Theog. 311) fifty-headed and a son of Typhaon and Echidna. Later writers describe him as a monster with only three heads, with the tail of a serpent and a mane consisting of the heads of various snakes. (Apollod. ii. 5. § 12; Eurip.
Here. fur. 24, 611; Virg.
Aen. vi. 417; Ov.
Met. iv. 449.) Some poets again call him many-headed or hundred-headed. (Horat.
Carm. ii. 13. 34; Tzetz.
ad Lycoph. 678; Senec.
Here. fur. 784.) The place where Cerberus kept watch was according to some at the mouth of the Acheron, and according to others at the gates of Hades, into which he admitted the shades, but never let them out again.
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.