> Heracles holding a club and a lion's skin is a bit of a trope.

But this one does not have a lion’s skin. Maybe a man with a club is just a man with a club.

This kind of thinking would lead a historian living in 3k to identify a picture of an astronaut as the mythical hero of Ironman.

The paper says that because the giant has a club, it is generally accepted to be Hercules. It notes that an image of Hercules should also have a lion skin, but -- despite extensive discussion of LIDAR scans showing what the image would have been in the past -- presents no evidence that the giant ever had one; it just says that, because the giant is obviously Hercules, there must have originally been a lion skin too.

Roman culture was well-known and venerated among the Anglo-Saxons and Hercules was venerated among Romans as much as the Greek Herakles.

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