Cerberus
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Cape Tainaron, Greece
- Greek
The three-headed dog at the gate of the underworld, whose job is less keeping the living out than keeping the dead in.
Known for
- three heads
- guards the underworld
- the twelfth labour
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.