Editing Bonus Eventus (section)

==Iconography==
Coins featuring Bonus Eventus were issued during the turmoil of the [[Year of Four Emperors]] (69 AD) and the reigns of [[Galba]], [[Vespasian]], [[Titus]], [[Antoninus Pius]], and [[Septimius Severus]].<ref>Fears, "The Cult of Virtues," pp. 897, 900–901, 903–904.</ref> On these coins and on gems, Bonus Eventus is a standing male nude, usually with one leg bent and his head turned away toward a [[patera|libation bowl]] in his outstretched hand. Sometimes he is partially clad in a [[chlamys]] that covers his back, or in an over-the-shoulder [[himation]] with the ends framing his torso. [[Poppy|Poppies]] and stalks of grain are common attributes.<ref>Olga Palagia, ''Euphranor'' (Brill, 1980), p. 35.</ref>
 
In his book on sculpture, [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] describes two statues of "Bonus Eventus" which were in fact renamed images of [[List of Greek deities|Greek gods]]. One was a bronze by [[Euphranor]] and the other a marble by [[Praxiteles]]. The latter stood in the [[Capitolium]] with a statue of Bona Fortuna, and the former somewhere between the repurposed [[Athena]] below the Capitol and the [[Leto]] in the [[Temple of Concord]].<ref>Pliny, ''Natural History'' 36.23.</ref> It is unclear from Pliny's description whether both Greek statues had originally represented the same Greek deity.<ref>Palagia, ''Euphranor'', p. 35.</ref> The [[classics|classical]] [[art historian]] [[Adolf Furtwängler]] conjectured that Praxiteles had depicted an [[Agathos Daimon]], since he was accompanied by a "Bona Fortuna," presumably a translation of the Greek ''[[Tyche|Agathē Tychē]]''. Euphranor's bronze is sometimes taken as the type on which the iconography of coins and gems was based, since the figure held poppies and grain. These attributes suggest an [[Eleusinian Mysteries|Eleusinian]] deity, and while the Greek original is most often taken as [[Triptolemus]], no extant depictions of Triptolemus show the combination of poppies and grain, which is associated with [[Demeter]] (Roman [[Ceres (mythology)|Ceres]]).<ref>Palagia, ''Euphranor'', p. 35.</ref>