He was a strange creature, half goat and half man. […] Now there was an old man of whom Andromeda’s parents were very much afraid. […] But the girl hated this old man, and that was another reason why she loved Perseus, who had saved her not only from the sea serpent, but from the man whom she dreaded quite as much. […] Hercules was, in fact, the strongest man of whom the world has any record. […] One was a tall, noble-looking man with massive head and fine features.