On his way back he came to Ethiopia and alighted there. By this time Hermes had left him. Perseus found, as Hercules was later to find, that a lovely maiden had been given up to be devoured by a horrible sea serpent. Her name was Andromeda and she was the daughter of a silly vain woman, She had boasted that she was more beautiful than the daughters of Nereus, the Sea-god. An absolutely certain way to draw down on one a wretched fate is to claim superiority in anything over any deity; nevertheless people are perpetually doing so.