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. This woman is believed to represent Spes, the Roman personification of Hope.

This statue, 82 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.

Further reading

External links The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide, a collection catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art containing information on Hope Dionysus (page 308)