Hercules ala a Cancerbero que de rabia inficiona la tierra con su espuma · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Hercules ala a Cancerbero que de rabia inficiona la tierra con su espuma
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This image depicts the demi-god Hercules in the Underworld battling the three headed beast named Cerberus. Hercules is tying the beast up with chains as he steps on their heads. It is suggested that the poison aconite (also known as wolfsbane) came from the mouth of Cerberus. When Hercules had chained up Cerberus and brought him up from the Underworld, he started foaming at the mouth when he saw daylight, which turned into aconite when it touched the ground.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25016
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1809)
Image: mta_25016_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Hercules; Cerberus; Aconite; Mythology; Gods