Greek to Me: Cerberus Didn't Always Have Three Heads
One biscuit, three eager mouths, and an ancient source with a much bigger head count.
Someone underestimated the biscuit budget.
Hesiod describes a fifty-headed Cerberus in the Theogony, around 700 BC. The Library attributed to Apollodorus gives the watchdog three dog heads, a snake tail and snakes along his back. Three heads is ancient too: these are different versions, not a modern mistake. Our paper watchdog has a more immediate concern about sharing the biscuits.
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Greek to Me
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