Bonus Eventus

Bonus Eventus ( Latin for " happy ending ", "happy prosperity " ) was originally a rural god of the Roman religion, probably the Greek Triptolemus and the Greek Agathos Daimon met and how it was presented. One no longer unclassifiable from its creation time stamp of divinity was on the Campus Martius in Rome at the Baths of Agrippa. Even in Roman provinces, such as in Mogontiacum, today Mainz, Bonus Eventus was worshiped. The Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro mentions him as one of the twelve gods in the field of agriculture. In addition to its main task is to guarantee the successful prosperity in agriculture, Bonus Eventus was in imperial times more and more to a general symbol for the success par excellence.

Common representations of the deity can be found on coins with flowers, ears of corn, grapes in his hand, before an altar on which the sacrificial fire is burning, or as a beautiful, naked youth on a winged dragon-drawn carriage, in his right hand a patera, in the left ears of corn and a cornucopia. An alleged by the famous sculptor Praxiteles made ​​, originally a Greek deity representing statue, which was later renamed Bonus Eventus, was together with a statue of Bona Fortuna on the Capitol.