Tyche

Tyche was the goddess of fortune, chance, providence and fate.

Residence: Mount Olympus
Symbols: Cornucopia and rudder
Parents: Oceanus and Tethys
Siblings: The Oceanids
Children: Plutus
Roman equivalent: Fortuna

The Tyche of Antioch, Roman copy of a bronze by Eutychides. Vatican Museum.

She was usually honoured in a more favourable light as Eutykhia (Eutychia), goddess of good fortune, luck, success and prosperity.

Roman relief of the Three Tychae, c. 160 AD. The Louvre.
Roman statue of Tyche holding the infant Plutus, 2nd c. AD. Istanbul Archaeological Museum. (c) Giovanni Dall’Orto

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