Tyche

Goddess of fortune and chance, an Oceanid in Hesiod’s catalogue; by the Hellenistic period the great city-goddess (Tyche of Antioch), whose mural crown, rudder, and cornucopia became the standard iconography of a city’s fortune.

Parentage

• parent: Oceanus
• parent: Tethys

Domains

• fortune

Powers

• Raise and cast down mortals by the turn of fortune

Epithets

• Τύχη Σώτειρα greek · Týchē Sṓteira'Fortune the Saviour' — common cult-epithet of the city-protecting TychePausanias 7.21.7 (Patrae) (primary)
• Ἀγαθὴ Τύχη greek · Agathḕ Týchē'Good Fortune' — widely invoked at the head of decrees and in cultIG II² 333 (Athens) (primary)

Relations

• equated with: Fortuna (Roman goddess of fortune; cults of Fortuna Primigenia at Praeneste and Fortuna at Antium) · RomanStandard interpretatio scholarship; J. Champeaux, Fortuna (1982-87) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TycheTradition-specific counterpart; this link does not transfer parentage.Orphic Hymns 71 (Taylor; modern 72) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Hes. Theog. 360 (primary); Pind. Ol. 12.1-2 (primary)
• parentage: Hes. Theog. 346-366 (Oceanid catalogue) (primary)