Cerberus is often depicted as a large, three-headed dog with a coat darker than night, but ancient writers have given varying descriptions of him. The earliest surviving account, provided by ...

Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, ...

For his final task, Eurystheus ordered Heracles to go to the Underworld and bring back Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of Hades. To enter Hades’s realm, Heracles underwent initiation into ...