Mythical+Beast

MYTHICAL BEAST  - This three headed hound is called a Cerberus.Which guards the gates of The Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping. Cerberus featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature and in works of both ancient and modern art and architecture. The most notable difference is the number of its heads, most sources describe or depict three heads; others show it with two or even just one; a smaller number of sources show a variable number, sometimes as many as 50. Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil 's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules the story of Orpheus in Plato 's Symposium, and in Homer 's Iliad , which is the only known reference to one of Heracles' labours which first appeared in a literary source. The depiction of Cerberus is relatively consistent between different works and authors, the common theme of the mane of serpents is kept across works, as is the serpent's tail, most literary works of the era describe Cerberus as having three heads with the only notable exception being Hesiod 's Theogony in which he had 50 heads. 