Hope Dionysus

{{Short description|Marble statue of Dionysos}}

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File:Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos") MET DT6495.jpg

File:Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos") MET DT6496.jpg

The Hope Dionysus is a statue of Dionysus, the god of wine, wearing a panther skin and casually stretching his left arm over a smaller figure of a woman, in a Neo Attic or archaic pose.[http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grsc/ho_1990.247.htm]

This statue, 82{{fraction|1|4}} in. (2.1 m) high, dates to between 27 BC and 68 AD. It was once owned by the 18th-century British antiquities collector Thomas Hope (hence the name), and later belonged to a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, before being acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990.[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0704270835apr29,0,2636409.story?coll=chi-newsopinionperspective-utl]