He was endowed with prodigious strength by his father, and was pursued with unrelenting hatred by Juno.

In his infancy he killed with his hands the serpents which were sent to devour him.

The legends about him are innumerable.
He was said to have been armed with a massive club, which only he was able to carry.

The most famous of his feats were the twelve labors, with which all readers of mythology are familiar.

Hercules, personified, meant to the Greeks physical force as well as strength, generosity, and bravery, and was equivalent to the Assyrian Hercules.
The Gauls had a Hercules-Pantopage, who, in addition to the ordinary qualities attributed to Hercules, had an enormous appetite.
As late as the sixteenth century, and in a most amusing and picturesque manner, Rabelais has given us the history of Gargantua, and even to this day, in some regions, there are groups of stones which are believed by ignorant people to have been thrown about by Gargantua in his play.