Ancient Greeks knew that death was the final door they had ... The guardian of these barriers between life and the afterlife was none other than the fearsome, three-headed dog-creature we know as ...

A sealed tomb featuring a fresco of Cerberus – the three-headed dog from Ancient Greek mythology – has been uncovered in Italy. The burial chamber was discovered in Giugliano, a suburb of ...

The heroes are the best-known part of Greek mythology ... 1) Cerberus Most people know Cerberus as the three-headed dog who guards Hades — both keeping the living out and the dead in.

If you’re jetting off to Europe for a holiday soon, you might want to make sure you pack the sun cream, to say the least. Europe is experiencing a heatwave that is so serious it’s been named ...

From Monstrum: The impossible, three-headed monster of Ancient Greek mythology, the Chimaera, may have started off as a fantasy, but today, the word “chimera” can be used to refer to anything ...

Homer goes on to describe Ancient Greek beliefs about the afterlife, including crossing the River Styx and the three-headed dog, Cerberus. Finally Hades will decide if the deceased will enjoy the ...

The shrine was considered a portal from which flowed the toxic breath of Cerberus, the mythical three-headed dog said to ... with the ancient writings of the Greek geographer Strabo, who lived ...

Our penchant for mythologizing canine companions may be just as ancient as our ... D’Huy found three core story lines for the earliest myths related to dogs: The first links dogs with the ...