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In Greek mythology, Tyche ("luck") (Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. Increasingly during the Hellenistic period cities had their own specific iconic version of Tyche, wearing a mural crown, that is a
crown like the walls of the city. In literature, she might be given various genealogies, as a daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite, or considered as one of the Oceanids, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys or Zeus Pindar. She was
connected with Nemesis and Agathos Daimon ("good spirit").
Tyche appears on many coins of the Hellenistic period in the three
centuries before the Christian era, especially from cities in the Aegean.
In medieval art, she was depicted as carrying a cornucopia, an emblemmatic ship's rudder and
the wheel of fortune, or she may stand on the wheel, presiding over
the entire circle of fate.
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