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Tyche was uniquely venerated at Itanos in Crete, as Tyche Protogeneia, linked with the Athenian Protogeneia ("firstborn"), daughter of Erechtheus, whose self-sacrifice saved the city. [13] In Alexandria the Tychaeon, the Greek temple of Tyche, was described by Libanius as one of the most magnificent of the entire Hellenistic world. [14]
An artist's rendering of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt (inset). Tyche / ˈ t aɪ k i / was a hypothetical gas giant located in the Solar System's Oort cloud, first proposed in 1999 by astrophysicists John Matese, Patrick Whitman and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Fortuna (Latin: Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at least the Renaissance.
Tyche of Constantinople appears in two basic guises on coins and medallions. In one, she wears a helmet like Dea Roma. In the other, which was used for instance on silver medallions in 330 AD to commemorate Constantine's inauguration day, Tyche wears a crown of towers representing city walls, and sits on a throne with a ship's prow at her feet. [7]
The Tyche of Antioch, Roman version of a 3rd-century BC bronze by Eutychides The mural crown became an ancient Roman military decoration . The corona muralis (Latin for "walled crown") was a golden crown, or a circle of gold intended to resemble a battlement , bestowed upon the soldier who first climbed the wall of a besieged city or fortress ...
Plutus is most commonly the son of Demeter [1] and Iasion, [2] with whom she lay in a thrice-ploughed field. He is alternatively the son of the fortune goddess Tyche. [3]Two ancient depictions of Plutus, one of him as a little boy standing with a cornucopia before Demeter, and another inside the cornucopia being handed to Demeter by a goddess rising out of the earth, perhaps implying that he ...
258 Tyche is a relatively large main belt asteroid discovered by Robert Luther at Düsseldorf-Bilk Observatory on 4 May 1886. [1] The stony S-type asteroid measures about 65 kilometers in diameter and has a perihelion of 2.1 AU. [1] Tyche orbits very close to the Eunomia family of asteroids, and could
Tyche may refer to: Tyche, an ancient Greek goddess; Tyche of Constantinople, personification of Constantinople; 258 Tyche, an asteroid; Tyche (hypothetical planet), a gas giant planet in our outer Solar System, now disproven; Tyche Tessera, a feature on Venus; Tyche, a suburb of the city of Syracuse, Sicily