Who in Mythology was CEREBUS?

Answer 1

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.
One of the twelve Labours of Herakles was to fetch Kerberos from the underworld, which he accomplished through the grace of Persephone.

Answer 2

Correct spelling is CERBERUS from Greek mythology, was the hound of hades (hell), the three (or sometimes 50 or 100) headed hound with a snake for a tail and a serpentine mane.
His job was to ensure that all spirits could enter Hades but none could leave.
Cerebus - as you have spelled it, is Cerebus the Aardvark, comic book character by Canadian Dave Sim. Was this a trick question ???.

Answer 3

Cerberus, in Greek mythology, a three-headed, dragon-tailed dog that guarded the entrance to the lower world, or Hades. The monster permitted all spirits to enter Hades, but would allow none to leave. Only a few heroes ever escaped Cerberus's guard; the great musician Orpheus charmed it with his lyre, and the Greek hero Hercules captured it bare-handed and brought it for a short time from the underworld to the regions above. In Roman mythology both the beautiful maiden Psyche and the Trojan prince Aeneas were able to pacify Cerberus with a honey cake and thus continue their journey through the underworld. Cerberus is sometimes pictured with a mane of snakes and 50 heads. He is said to be a brother to Medusa as well.

Answer 4

In Greek mythology, Cerberus or Kerberos (Greek Κέρβερος, Kerberos, "demon of the pit") was the hound of Hades, a monstrous three-headed dog (sometimes said to have 50 or 100 heads) with a snake for a tail and serpentine mane.

He guarded the gate to Hades. (the Greek underworld) and ensured that all spirits could enter, but none could return. His sister was Chimera and his brother was Orthrus. He is the offspring of Echidna and Typhon.

Answer 5

Three Headed Hound who guarded the gateway to Hades, Greek land of the dead

Answer 6

A good account of Cerebus can be found in Dante's Inferno---------He is the "hound of hell" sinners flounder in his saliva, while he picks them up and gnaws on them. He is said to constantly gnaw on the head of Judas Iscariot.

Answer 7

Cerberus is usually portrayed as a three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hades, which is the Greek realm of the dead, it was used as a safeguard that no living soul could enter the realm of the dead and no dead soul can leave it.

Answer 8

He is a three-headed dog owned by Hades, Greek God of the Underworld. He guarded the entrance of the underworld.

Answer 9

u mean cerberus
he was a three-headed monsterous dog who guarded the gates of hades' palace,where the dead souls went to be judged and sent to tartarus or to the aelisian fields.
cerberus' job was to prohibid the entrance of the living,and prohibid the exit of the dead from the palace.he failed to his job only 3 times:
when hercules fought cerberus and defeated it

when orpheus sang so beautiful that cerberus fell asleep,and orpheus entered in hades' palace to beg hades to give him back his wife

and when psiche(eros' wife) was sent by aphrodite to the underworld to take a box from persephony.she gave cerberus to eat a pie that contained poppy.
the poppy made cerberus fall asleep,and psiche entered in the palace.

Answer 10

Cerberus was the three-headed dog who guarded the entry to the underworld.