Fortuna

Roman · deity · primordial · Recorded classification

Roman goddess of fortune and chance, with wheel, rudder and cornucopia.

Domains

Primigenia latin · Primigenia · cultFirst-born / firstborn-giver; the great oracular Fortuna of PraenesteCic. Div. 2.85-87; CIL XIV 2852 (primary)
Fors Fortuna latin · Fors Fortuna · cultChance Fortune; the popular festival-Fortuna of the Trastevere shrinesOv. Fast. 6.771-784; Varro, Ling. 6.17 (primary)
Muliebris latin · Muliebris · cultOf women; Fortuna honoured for turning back Coriolanus by the matronsLivy 2.40; Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 8.55-56; Val. Max. 1.8.4 (primary)
Redux latin · Redux · cultWho brings home / the home-bringer; protectress of safe returnRes Gestae 11; CIL VI 31228 (Fortuna Redux) (primary)

descendant of: IuppiterFortuna Primigenia ('firstborn') styled daughter of Iuppiter at Praeneste; deity-tier blocks parentId so recorded as relation.Cicero, De Divinatione 2.85 (Fortuna Primigenia of Praeneste) (primary); J. Champeaux, Fortuna: recherches sur le culte de la Fortune à Rome (1982) (secondary)