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    Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea
    Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea
    Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea
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    Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea

    By Maurice Bloomfield

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2003
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      Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea - Maurice Bloomfield

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      Title: Cerberus, The Dog of Hades

      The History of an Idea

      Author: Maurice Bloomfield

      Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19119]

      Language: English

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      Explanation of Frontispiece

      The picture is reproduced from Baumeister's Denkmäler des klassichen Alterthums, volume I., figure 730 (text on p. 663). It is on a vase and describes one of the twelve heroic deeds of Herakles. The latter, holding aloft his club, drags two-headed Cerberus out of Hades by a chain drawn through the jaw of one of his heads. He is just about to pass Cerberus through a portal indicated by an Ionic pillar. To the right Persephone, stepping out of her palace, seems to forbid the rape. Herakles in his turn seems to threaten the goddess, while Hermes, to the left, holds a protecting or restraining arm over him. Athene, with averted face, ready to depart with her protégé, stands in front of four horses hitched to her chariot. Upon her shield the eagle augurs the success of the entire undertaking.

      Cerberus,

      The Dog of Hades

      The History of an Idea

      BY

      MAURICE BLOOMFIELD

      Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology

      Johns Hopkins University

      CHICAGO

      The Open Court Publishing Company

      LONDON

      Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd

      1905

      Copyright 1905

      by

      THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO.

      Chicago

      To the Memory

      of

      F. Max Müller

      CERBERUS, THE DOG OF HADES

      Hermes, the guide of the dead, brings to Pluto's kingdom their psyches, that gibber like bats, as they fare down the dank ways, past the streams of Okeanos, past the gates of the sun and the land of dreams, to the meadow of asphodel in the dark realm of Hades, where dwell the souls, the phantoms of men outworn. So begins the twenty-fourth book of the Odyssey. Later poets have Charon, a grim boatsman, receive the dead at the River of Woe; he ferries them across, provided the passage money has been placed in their mouths, and their bodies have been duly buried in the world above. Otherwise they are left to gibber on the hither bank. Pluto's house, wide-gated, thronged with guests, has a janitor Kerberos, sometimes friendly, sometimes snarling when new guests arrive, but always hostile to those who would depart.

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