Tykhe

Tykhe
Names(s):	Tyche
Rules Over:	Fortune, chance and luck
Gender:	Female
Parents:	Okeanos & Tethys or Zeus & Aphrodite or Hermes & Aphrodite
Roman Name	Fortuna

Tykhe (Ancient Greek: Τυχη) is the blind goddess of luck, fortune, chance, providence, and fate. Tykhe was also one of the earlier Okeanides she is numbered among the Titanesses.

Family

• Okeanos - Father
• Tethys - Mother
• Ploutos - Son

Depiction

Tyche was sometimes depicted with a rudder. While holding this she was conceived as the divinity guiding and conducting the affairs of the world.

With a ball she conceived the varying unsteadiness of fortune. That fortune can go any way like a ball.

With the horn of Amalthea, she was conceived as the many gifts of fortune.

She also was seen wearing a mural crown.

Other Names

• Fortuna, in Roman Mythology.

Trivia

• Tyche was considered the good, Eris the bad, and Nemesis the force that balances them.
  
• Tykhe is often shown sitting with a river god swimming at her feet (the god shown varies)

Gallery

Tykhe (Titaness) goddess of of fortune, chance, providence and fate

The Tyche of Antioch, Roman copy of a bronze by Eutychides (Galleria dei Candelabri, Vatican Museums)

Tyche in gold

Women wearing a Mural Crown

Tyche, turreted and veiled, holding grain ears in extended right hand, seated right on throne, right foot on the shoulder of river god Kydnos, who swims right below.