, 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 protege, 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, TRUeBNER & CO., LTD
1905
COPYRIGHT 1905
BY
THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO.
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