| Labours of Heracles | liebher2.6: Finally Eurystheus imposed on Heracles a twelfth labour: to bring Hades' three-headed dog Cerberus from the Underworld. Having descended to the nether world, Heracles asked Hades for Cerberus, and the god replied that he could take it if he could master it without weapons. So finding the three-headed hound at the gates of the river Acheron, he grasped it without relaxing his grip, and although the dragon in Cerberus' tail bit him, he at last gained control over the brute. Heracles returned to this world through an exit at Troezen, and after showing the hound to Eurystheus, he carried it back to the Underworld. Liebig sets. |
