On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:15:41 GMT, Aaron Gray said: > Sorry a dog not lions ! Of course, even the most bad-ass canine can be taken down by sufficient strength: "Herakles asked Pouton [Haides] for Kerberos, and was told to take the hound if he could overpower it without using any of the weapons he had brought with him. He found Kerberos at the gates of Akheron, and there, pressed inside his armour and totally covered by the lion's skin, he threw his arms round its head and hung on, despite bites from the serpent-tail, until he convinced the beast with his choke-hold. Then, with it in tow, he made his ascent through Troizen. After showing Kerberos to Eurystheus, he took it back to Haides' realm." - Apollodorus, The Library 2.125 or cleverness: "Huge Cerberus, monstrously couched in a cave confronting them, made the whole region echo with this three-throated barking. The Sibyl, seeing the snakes bristling upon his neck now, threw him for bait a cake for honey and wheat infused with sedative drugs. The creature, crazy with hunger, opened its three mouths, gobbled the bait; then its huge body relaxed and lay, sprawled out on the ground, the whole length of its cave kennel. Aeneas, passing its entrance, the watch-dog neutralize, strode rapidly from the bank of that river [Styx] of no return." - Virgil, Aeneid 6.417 http://www.theoi.com/Ther/KuonKerberos.html There's a security-related moral somewhere in there. :)
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