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Fortuna
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Fortuna (), sometimes anglicized as Fortune, is the goddess of luck or fortune in Roman religion. She came to represent life's capriciousness, and was a goddess of fate. In antiquity she was also known by the epithet Automatia (; , "she who does what she will"). Her Greek equivalent is Tyche.
Fortuna is the Roman goddess of luck and fortune who symbolized both the unpredictability of life and the concept of fate. She was so important to Roman religion that she also carried the epithet Automatia, meaning "she who does what she will," and had a Greek counterpart in the goddess Tyche.
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- Roman
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- Goddess of Fortune, Chance, Luck, and Fate
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- Rome
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- Globe, Cornucopia, Wheel, ball, Wreath
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- Tyche
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Fortuna (), sometimes anglicized as Fortune, is the goddess of luck or fortune in Roman religion. She came to represent life's capriciousness, and was a goddess of fate. In antiquity she was also known by the epithet Automatia (; , "she who does what she will"). Her Greek equivalent is Tyche.
Fortuna was often depicted with a gubernaculum (ship's rudder), a ball or wheel of fortune (first mentioned by Cicero) and a horn of plenty. She could be represented as veiled and blind, as in modern depictions of Lady Justice, except that Fortuna does not hold a balance. She was believed to bring either fortune or misfortune: As Atrox Fortuna ("Cruel Fortune"), she was said to have claimed the young lives of the princeps Augustus' grandsons Gaius and Lucius, prospective heirs to the Empire.