Tyche - Mythology.
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Tyche - Mythology. Greek A goddess, the personification of plenty, also of chance and fate, both good and bad. Very few stories surround Tyche, but she was an important concept and figure in the lives of Greek citizens and, later, in the lives of Romans as the goddess Fortuna. People recognized the power of good and bad luck in their lives and considered Tyche the provider of that luck. Her influence was so great that each individual had his or her own Tyche. Over time, people believed she had power over the fates of entire cities and each city had its own Tyche. A wheel symbolized her everchanging nature and a balance showed her power to weigh the good and bad events in a person's life. The Greek poet Hesiod, who wrote in the 800s b.c., named her as one of the Oceanids, daughters of the sea Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
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