3Heracles Retrieves Cerberus In the last of Heracles' 12 labors, he was ordered to take Cerberus, the three-headed hound that guarded the underworld. Heracles descended into the underworld to ask permission of Hades. On his way to the throne room, Heracles wrestled with Hades' servant, provi...
What was the condition that Hades imposed on Orpheus in order to get Eurydice out of the underworld? To walk in front of Eurydice all the time and never turn back. To kill Cerberus, the guardian of the entrance to the underworld.
It seems that Morpheus was one of the busiest deities so he didn’t have a wife, or at least so it was known in the Greek mythology. But some interpretations were ready to see him with Iris, the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods....
The statue of him that I saw in a museum in Crete depicted him with longer hair and a beard, holding a stick in his hand. He also had Cerberus next to him. Cerberus is the three-headed dog that guards the underworld. His duty is to watch the gates of the underworld for Hades to ...