3432824 The Hope Athena (marble) by Roman, (2nd century AD); 218.44 cm; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA; (add.info.: This Roman copy of a 5th century BC Greek original was excavated at Ostia and called after Sir Thomas Hope who later owned it. Athena, the Greek goddess of war and wisdom wears her protective aegis, a snake-fringed garment on which is fixed the head of the Gorgon Medusa. ); out of copyright.