The marble head of Silenus. In Greek mythology, Silenus was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus. The original Silenus resembled a folkloric man of the forest, with the ears of a horse and sometimes also the tail and legs of a horse. The later sileni were drunken followers of Dionysus, usually bald and fat with thick lips and squat noses, and having the legs of a human. Silenus was the teacher and faithful companion of the wine-god Dionysus. On display at the Munich Glyptotek this sculpture is a Roman copy of the middle 2nd century AD after a Greek original by Lysippos, c.300BC. On display at the Glyptotek Museum in Munich.