Tyche
"luck, chance, fate"
Goddess of
blind fate and chance, Tyche was often made he patron and personification
of many cities during the Hellenistic
years.
She was the daughter of Zeus
and was worshipped widely. When Palamedes
invented the dice, he dedicated the first pair to her.
Tyche was represented in different ways: if she held a rudder she symbolized
the guiding of the affairs of the world, with a ball she was associated with
the unstable ways of luck that can urn in any direction, and with the Horn
of Amalthea she represented optimism.
The Romans called her Fortuna.
