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It is true, however, that this Roman coin marks the first time Fortuna was depicted in this fashion in Rome, a reflection of the growing importance of Fortuna in Roman politics. Indeed, the appearance of Fortuna with a rudder and cornucopia marks a new expression of the power and role of Fortuna in the life of Julius Caesar and her important role in ensuring the Victoria of Caesar (depicted on the obverse of the coin) in the future Parthian expedition. 663 Furthermore, the appearance of the coin marks, “a most important moment in religious history,” 664 whereby the Fortuna of the Republic, with all of her complex, layered significance in political, religious and social circumstances, falls under the domain of Caesar in Rome. Thus, the mural crown was not used on the Roman coin because it was not meant to depict a city Tyche (as, for example, the Sullan Venus Pompeiana), but rather the personal Fortuna of Caesar. A victorious Caesar underlined his association with Fortuna and Victoria in the spirit of past Republican generals through his vow to create a temple to Felicitas and through the creation of a new Roman coinage type, depicting Victoria and Fortuna. In addition, before his death, Caesar made Romans swear by his genius, an action which was equal to the Greeks' swearing by a monarch's 662 Weinstock (1971) 124. In a review of Weinstock (1971), North (1975) 174 agrees with Weinstock’s observation. 663 North (1975) 174. The Parthian-Fortuna association was prominent in the imperial period, as I will discuss in Chapter 5, 302ff. 664 Ibid., 174. 207
tyche. 665 The association between Fortuna and genius would be further strengthened in the Augustan period (Chapter 5, 283ff.). Julius Caesar’s gardens and the role of Fortuna The horti were the symbol of the late Republican dynast, which imitated Hellenistic Greek architectural precedents. 666 Caesar, in his bid for power, tried to outstrip his rival, Pompey, by recourse to as many building projects and gardens as political maneuverings. Like Pompey, (and possibly Lucullus), Julius Caesar also demonstrated his affinity for Fortuna through the strategic planning and location for two horti in Rome. His residence on the Quirinal, in the Via Veneto area, the future site of the Gardens of Sallust, apparently encompassed the area around the Porta Collina, which contained three temples of Fortuna Publica as well as the Temple of Venus Erycina. 667 Construction of his horti in the vicinity of both goddesses evoked political messages of his ancestry to Venus as well as his particular relationship with Fortuna. 668 In addition, Dio (42.26.3), states that in 47 BCE lightning struck the Temple of Fortuna Publica and the horti Caesaris, and that the temple doors opened up and blood flowed to the Temple of Fortuna Respiciens. Akin to the 665 Taylor (1931) 67. Weinstock (1971) 204-214. 666 La Rocca (1986) 3-35. 667 LTUR (1996) F. Coarelli, “Horti Caesaris (ad Portam Collinam),” III.55, Richardson (1992) 197. 668 Talamo (1998) 137-8. 208
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The Goddess Fortuna in Imperial Rom
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Acknowledgements This study of Fort
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the moment I arrived in Texas, this
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influenced the image of Tyche as mu
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Fortuna: multivalent (beneficent an
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Fortuna “installations” in the
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The Antonines and Severans ........
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unique creation from Sparta, which
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slightly to the viewer’s left; th
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The mural crown of Tyche was derive
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Vergil’s Aeneid (6.626-670), whic
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shoulders his father, Anchises (who
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mural crown itself. Two gates are o
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The Sparta Tyche head, with the fig
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By virtue of the depiction of the w
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of Augustus. 51 The emperor also cr
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agora analogous to the Tyche statue
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The basic information about the sta
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figured prominently in other Seleuc
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vicinity of the Theater of Marcellu
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ecame visually canonized through he
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Most scholars, instead, identify th
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coinage in the East. The city becam
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triad. 103 The Tyche of Antioch sea
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emperor. The first Tyche statue con
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fortune of a city, and the fortune
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eginnings. Ferre, “to bring,” a
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SCOPE OF THE STUDY Recent studies o
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as many scholars often conclude. 13
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characteristics of Tyche has obscur
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goddess was a central feature in th
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Initial inquiries into the relation
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Chapter 2: The interrelationship be
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Fortuna” does not necessarily des
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conquered one’s own city). 154 Th
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Fortuna: multivalent (beneficent an
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Respiciens (Cicero, leg., 2.28), an
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cases, the two Fortuna goddesses ar
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adorned the bronze 178 cult statue
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econstruction of the entire site at
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Max. 1.8.11, Ovid, Fasti, 6.569-572
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Cornucopia The account of one of th
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chthonic deities. 213 By the first
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grain, e.g., the Tychai of Alexandr
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fourth century depict the goddess w
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the relief, has questioned the iden
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an independent symbol of power. 252
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The concept of Tyche standing preca
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statuary depicting Fortuna holding
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an apple tree branch in her left ha
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The wheel, in a negative sense, as
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Tyche in the sixth century BCE rema
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securely-identified Fortuna-type fi
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a term; indeed, the Romans never de
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artistic representations (discussed
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In particular, the Tabula of Cebes,
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Hellenistic depictions of Tyche, ac
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Writing in Greek, Plutarch defines
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two essays on Alexander served as a
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“ἤόόὶάὶίίίὴ
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depended on its dedicator, the circ
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disagreements on Plutarch’s trans
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features common to her artistic rep
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stormy sea crossing (319B-D). This
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individuals. 355 In Plutarch’s hi
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Arete-Tyche topos Plutarch’s essa
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Historians also recognized Tyche’
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In On the Fortune of the Romans, Pl
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protecting Rome throughout history
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Plutarch reveals that the reigns of
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the East as early as the second cen
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honor gods, speak to and for cities
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the demise of Greek power and the r
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defeats of Philip V and Antiochus I
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Fortune of the Romans, however, dem
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Chapter 3: Fortuna and the late Rep
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throne, another, naked, holding a g
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of the period immediately after the
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including Stoicism. Indeed, the Tyc
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individual identified as such. 439
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The Greek city states and citizens
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great influence in Caesarian and Au
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events that took place in the fifth
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Roman deities, 474 became less the
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Apollo from nearby Seleucia; Apollo
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Chapter 5: Fortuna in Augustan Rome
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of dynastic succession, for the Jul
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complexity of these cults in Rome.
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two stanzas of I.35, Nisbet and Hub
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Fortuna as other deities of Rome, a
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asking Fortuna to protect Augustus,
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Rome (both of which utilized Antium
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with an actual prayer to the goddes
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Through her many epithets (90), 855
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In the second century CE, the priva
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predominant, private and public shr
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Aurelius Urbanus/ ex voto” next t
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well as goddess who could turn arou
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FORTUNA IN THE MARS ULTOR PEDIMENT
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The pairing of Fortuna and Venus in
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Lucan's choice of the mural crown f
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lituus, in the Mars Ultor panel as
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[Aram Fortunam Reducis ante ae]des
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Historical background: grain shorta
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The altar in relationship to nearby
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identified with the Muses and assoc
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the structure where the general cha
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he later celebrated this diplomatic
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to Parthia, Trajan stopped at Antio
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archaeological park of S. Omobono.
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i.e., without figural panels. 965 G
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of the altar, December 15 (Degrassi
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Apollo were paired in cult settings
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theme of Fortuna’s role in time,
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general. 984 Although the literary
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presents the double gate next to th
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Nova. 997 However, he flatly reject
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the “gate” (a triumphal arch ac
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esponse to the famine that was reco
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the early fifth century CE. 1022 De
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studies. 1027 The Marcus Aurelius
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elief, the relief has been dated to
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Nortia and Nemesis, were aspects th
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vengeance on imperial monuments, su
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second and third centuries CE, and
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administered by slaves (see below).
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later, they were both slaves and fr
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Fortuna Augusta are common in the A
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The association between non-elites
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society and was readily adopted by
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The inscriptional evidence for the
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demonstrates that the city became a
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society. The dialogue that began ce
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of plenty capped with a twin of Dru
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Sejanus and Galba represent two ind
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officially joined Fortuna Redux as
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The rise of the Flavians signaled a
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Hadrian, reminiscent of the scene f
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Many other episodes demonstrate the
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the cultural setting of Rome, accor
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