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Tyche (Greek τύχη ) In Greek mythology, the goddess of fate, the lucky (or evil ) coincidence and chance.

Tyche increases and decreases and leads to capricious change of history brought about. She is a daughter of Zeus. Their attributes are cornucopia, rudder, wings and a rudder on a ball or a wheel Occasionally she also holds the Pluto shown as a boy, the god of wealth, in the arm. In Hellenism their devotion grew, Antioch and Alexandria, they worshiped as the town goddess. The Roman equivalent is the goddess Fortuna, the Germanic equivalent is the ( abstract ) salvation.

From the second half of the 5th century BC a ( Agathe ) Tyche cult is detectable. Since that time, there is also several depictions of Tyche with the above Attributes. Well known is the made ​​in Antioch sculpture by Eutychides, with the river deity of the Orontes, which emerges at her feet, is the Tyche. For Argos, Megara, Thebes ( Greece and abroad :) Bupalos and Smyrna and perhaps Elis, Corinth, Megalopolis, Sicyon is expected to temples. The Hellenistic development of Tyche to a city goddess like in Antioch then finds in the Roman Fortuna continued.

In the ancient everyday use of the word but then fades the personal idea increasingly so that Tyche also " fate " and " random " (also: " chance encounter " ) can mean and finally finds even as a kind of exclamation when an error or oversight use.