Herakles/Hercules was special in the Greek and Roman worlds. He was as famous for his excessive vices as he was for his heroics, and he applied himself with equal dedication to both: a glutton, an incorrigible womanizer, and frequently a drunkard. The life of the party, even though he could have some serious explaining (and labors) to do afterwards.
In the Hellenistic period and into the Roman, his super-human misdeeds became perhaps even more popular than his heroics, and representations of his carousing, proliferated in small and large scale, on gems to monumental reliefs, and famously as a bronze (Epitrapezios) on the table of Alexander the Great.
Here he is (Hercules Mingens): the hero gone to seed, bloated, wobbly, and casually urinating in plain view. This statue (my favorite), once decorated a garden peristyle of the so-called House of the Stags in Herculaneum (the somewhat upscale Bay of Naples cousin to Pompeii) – imagine what fun dinner guests would have had spying him up to no good in the bushes!
