The historian Thomas R. You can also follow us on Youtube! Fidoes and Heroes in Bronze. Hercules was forgiven for his crimes was made immortal and went to live on Mount Olympus with his father Zeus. According to Hesiod, Cerberus was the second of the four monstrous children of Typhon and Echidna , being born after Orthus , the two-headed hound who guarded the cattle of Geryon , but before the Lernaean Hydra and, quite possibly, the Chimaera — all of them multi-headed. It was believed that no mortal could venture into the underworld and return to the land of the living. This labor took Hercules to the land of the Centaurs, and the wine he had been given to attract the boar drew the centaurs to him.
Prometheus was grateful and told him that the apples were guarded by a dragon named Ladon who could not be conquered, and so Hercules should try to get the titan Atlas , who held up the earth and heavens on his shoulders, to get the apples for him. Eurystheus ordered Hercules to go to the Underworld and kidnap the beast called Cerberus or Kerberos. Mentor Books, Hercules consulted the Oracle at Delphi who told him he must attach himself to his cousin Eurystheus, King of Tiryns and Mycenae , who would devise labors to expiate his sins. He continued in his rage until Athena knocked him out with a stone and, when he came to, he was overwhelmed with grief at what he had done. Mark has lived in Greece and Germany and traveled through Egypt. He then journeyed to Hades, where he had further adventures in the underworld such as freeing his cousin Theseus from the Chair of Forgetfulness where he had been bound.
