god
Cerberus
also: Cerberus
The many-headed hound guarding the gate of the underworld. Cotta lists him at the end of his infernal catalogue as a reductio of the Stoic chain of divine genealogy.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.10 three-headed Cerberus
The monstrous watchdog of the underworld, here heading a catalogue of mythic underworld terrors (Cocytus, Acheron, Tantalus, Sisyphus, the judges) that Cicero dismisses as the inventions of poets and painters.