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The study traces the evolution of the three-headed guardian of the underworld from early mentions in epic and lyric through visual art to later Roman and modern interpretations. It surveys ancient textual attestations and genealogies, poetic and sculptural depictions, and the treatment of the monster in the Heraklean descent motif; it shows how Greek sources left his form fluid while Roman poets fixed the tricephalous image. The author examines ritual, iconographic, and rationalizing explanations offered by classical commentators and modern scholars, and discusses how artistic convention, literary invention, and allegory shaped a shifting mythic figure.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Iliad viii. 368; Odyssey xi. 623.

[2] Theogony, 311 ff.; cf. also 769 ff.

[3] Republic, 588 C.

[4] Baumeister, volume I., page 620 (figure 690).

[5] Baumeister, volume I., page 379 (figure 415).

[6] Baumeister, volume I., page 653 (figure 721).

[7] Baumeister, volume I., page 663 (figure 730). See the Frontispiece and its explanation.

[8] American Journal of Archæology, volume XI., page 14 (figure 12, page 15).

[9] Custos opaci pervigil regni canis. Seneca.

[10] Inferno, Canto vi., 13 ff.

[11] See p. 99 of the Teubner edition of his writings.

[12] Fulgentius, Liber I., Fabula VI., de Tricerbero, p. 20 of the Teubner edition.

[13] Both Çankara, the great Hindu theologian and commentator of the Upanishads, as well as all modern interpreters of the Upanishads, have failed to see the sense of this passage.

[14] Cf. the notion of the sun as the "highest death" in Tāittirīva Brāhmana, 1. 8. 4.

[15] See Ernst Kuhn, Festgruss an Otto von Böhtlingk, page 68 ff.

[16] Similar notions in Russia and Russian Asia are reported by Wsevolod Miller, Atti del iv. Congresso Internazionale degli Orientalisti, vol. ii. p. 43; and by Casartelli, Babylonian and Oriental Record, iv. 266 ff. They are most likely derived from Iranian sources.

[17] See American Journal of Philology, vol. XI., p. 355.

[18] Similarly in Greek Αἴαντε means Ajax and Teukros; see Delbrück, Vergleichende Syntax, i. 137.

[19] See Usener, Götternamen, p. 303 ff.

[20] Max Müller, Contributions to the Science of Mythology, p. 240.

[21] Brinton, The Myths of the New World. Second Edition, p. 265.

[22] Presented to the American Oriental Society at its meeting May 5, 1891; and printed in its Journal, Vol. XV., pp. 163 ff.



Transcriber's Notes:
Standardized Punctuation.
Page 29: Changed whomsover to whomsoever.
Page 34: Changed Κέβρερος to Κέρβερος.
Footnote 18: Changed I. 137. to i. 137.