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These modern sketches represent several of the more familiar
monstrous characters from the Greek myths, including a dragon (top
center) and Cerberus (lower right), the fearsome three-headed dog
that guarded the underworld’s outer borders.
souls from escaping that place. Most Greeks were afraid of ghosts.
The general belief was that, left unchecked, some spirits of the
dead would escape Hades’s subterranean kingdom and return to
their hometowns to haunt and terrify the living. Thus, many Greeks
viewed Cerberus as providing a valuable service to human society.
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