Tyche

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τύχη (Túkhē), from τύχη (túkhē, “fortune”). Compare Latin Tychō.

Tyche (plural Tychai or Tyches)

1. (Greek mythology, in the singular) The goddess of luck/fortune; counterpart of the Roman Fortuna.
   • 1933, Richard Mansfield Haywood, Studies on Scipio Africanus, Johns Hopkins Press, page 12:

     The goddess Tyche was a very important deity in the Hellenistic world.¹⁵ "She was not blind chance, but some order of affairs that men could not comprehend."¹⁹ Tyche played her part in great events and in small ones […] .

   • 2000, Terence L. Donaldson (editor), Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, page 113,

     At Caesarea, several gems depicting a Tyche, as well as a possible statue of Tyche found at Caesarea, show attributes of Isis.

2. (Hellenistic period) Any of several city goddesses, typically regarded as aspects of the goddess of fortune.

   Tyche of Antioch

   Tyche of Constantinople

   • 1990, Michele Renee Salzman, On Roman Time, University of California Press, page 27:

     Following the dedicatory page is the illustrated section II, comprising the representations of the city goddesses or divine Fortunes (Tyches) of four major cities of the late Roman empire.

   • 2011, Alexei Sivertsev, Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, page 90:

     The Tyches of individual cities featured prominently in late ancient art and coinage.

3. (astronomy) The main belt asteroid 258 Tyche.

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