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  2. Labours of Hercules - Wikipedia

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    Heracles and Cerberus Hercules and Cerberus. The twelfth and final labour was the capture of Cerberus, the multi-headed dog that was the guardian of the gates of the Underworld. To prepare for his descent into the Underworld, Heracles went to Eleusis to be initiated in the Eleusinian Mysteries. He entered the Underworld with Hermes and Athena ...

  3. Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History - Wikipedia

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    Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History, originally published as Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History is a wallchart which graphically depicts a Biblical genealogy alongside a timeline composed of historic sources from the history of humanity from 4004 BC to modern times.

  4. Cerberus - Wikipedia

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    Euripides (c. 480 – 406 BC) describes Cerberus as three-headed, [102] and three-bodied, [103] says that Heracles entered the underworld at Tainaron, [104] has Heracles say that Cerberus was not given to him by Persephone, but rather he fought and conquered Cerberus, "for I had been lucky enough to witness the rites of the initiated", an ...

  5. Category:Labours of Hercules - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Cerberus (27 P) H. ... Hippolyta (13 P) Pages in category "Labours of Hercules" The following 13 pages are in this category ...

  6. Chronology of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Masoretic Text is the basis of modern Jewish and Christian bibles. While difficulties with biblical texts make it impossible to reach sure conclusions, perhaps the most widely held hypothesis is that it embodies an overall scheme of 4,000 years (a "great year") taking the re-dedication of the Temple by the Maccabees in 164 BCE as its end-point. [4]

  7. Category:Cerberus - Wikipedia

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    Cerberus is primarily known for his capture by Heracles, the last of Heracles' twelve labours. Pages in category "Cerberus" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.

  8. Heracles - Wikipedia

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    Eurystheus was so frustrated that Heracles was completing all the tasks that he had given him that he imposed one he believed to be impossible: Heracles had to go down into the underworld of Hades and capture the ferocious three-headed dog Cerberus who guarded the gates. He used the souls to help convince Hades to hand over the dog.

  9. Herakles (Euripides) - Wikipedia

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    Ambiguity: Euripides' play Heracles asks more questions than it answers. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the topic of faith. During Euripides' time, though most Greeks, like Euripides' Theseus, would have been believers, there is a strain of thinkers who questioned traditional religion and the existence of the gods, much as Heracles does in the play.