He did so in the Hymn to Demeter, where he enumerates the daughters of Okeanos (Oceanus), telling how they played with Kore (Core) the daughter of Demeter, and making Tykhe one of them." "Homer is the first whom I know to have mentioned Tykhe (Tyche) in his poems. " All we were playing in a lovely meadow, Leukippe (Leucippe) and Phaino (Phaeno) and Elektra (Electra) and Ianthe, Melita also and Iakhe with Rhodea and Kallirhoe (Callirhoe) and Melobosis and Tykhe (Tyche) and Okyrhoe (Ocyrhoe), fair as a flower, Khryseis (Chryseis), Ianeira, Akaste (Acaste) and Admete and Rhodope and Plouto (Pluto) and charming Kalypso (Calypso) Styx too was there and Ourania (Urania) and lovely Galaxaura with Pallas who rouses battles and Artemis delighting in arrows: we were playing and gathering sweet flowers in our hands, soft crocuses mingled with irises and hyacinths, and rose-blooms and lilies, marvellous to see, and the narcissus which the wide earth caused to grow yellow as a crocus." "She was playing with the deep-bosomed daughters of Okeanos (Oceanus) and gathering flowers over a soft meadow, roses and crocuses and beautiful violets, irises also and hyacinths and the narcissus." Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th or 6th B.C.) : "Tykhe (Tyche, Fortune) sister of Eunomia (Right Order) and Peitho (Persuasion) daughter of Prometheus." Greek Lyric II) (Greek lyric C7th B.C.) : "Daughter of Zeus Eleutherios (Liberator), Tykhe (Tyche, Fortune) our saviour goddess."Īlcman, Fragment 64 (trans. Now these are the eldest of the daughters who were born to Tethys and Okeanos, but there are many others beside these." Kalypso (Calypso), Eudora and Tykhe (Tyche). She brought forth also a race apart of daughters, who with lord Apollon and the Rivers have the young in their keeping all over the earth, since this right from Zeus is given them. "Tethys bore to Okeanos (Oceanus) the swirling Potamoi (Rivers). Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES PARENTAGE OF TYCHE Nemesis and Eutychia, Athenian red-figure hydria C5th B.C., Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
A nymph, one of the playmates of Persephone. § 1) at Lebadeia, together with agathos daimôn (ix. § 5) at Aegeira in Achaia, where she was represented with the horn of Amalthea and a winged Eros by her side (vii. § 2) at Smyrna, where her statue, the work of Bupalus, held with one hand a globe on her head, and in the other carried the horn of Amalthea (iv. 37.) Tyche was worshipped at Pharae in Messenia (Paus. Heyne) with a ball she represents the varying unsteadiness of fortune with Plutos or the horn of Amalthea, she was the symbol of the plentiful gifts of fortune. With a rudder, she was conceived as the divinity guiding and conducting the affairs of the world, and in this respect she is called one of the Moerae (Paus.
She was represented with different attributes. The personification of chance or luck, the Fortuna of the Romans, is called by Pindar ( Ol. PLOUTOS (Aesop Fables 130, Pausanias 9.16.2) ZEUS (Orphic Hymn 72, Pindar Olympian Ode) OKEANOS & TETHYS (Hesiod Theogony 360 Homeric Hymn 2.420) In the vase painting (right) Nemesis (Indignation) with her arm around Tykhe (Fortune) points an accusing fingure at Helene, who Aphrodite has persuaded to elope with Paris. The pair were often depicted as companions in Greek vase painting. Nemesis (Fair Distribution) was cautiously regarded as the downside of Tykhe, one who provided a check on extravagant favours conferred by fortune. Tykhe was depicted with a variety of attributes-holding a rudder, she was conceived as the divinity guiding and conducting the affairs of the world, and in this respect she was called one of the Moirai (Moirae, Fates) with a ball she represented the varying unsteadiness of fortune, unsteady and capable of rolling in any direction with Ploutos (Plutus) or the cornucopia, she was the symbol of the plentiful gifts of fortune. She was usually honoured in a more favourable light as Eutykhia (Eutychia), goddess of good fortune, luck, success and prosperity.
TYKHE (Tyche) was the goddess of fortune, chance, providence and fate. Fortune, Chance Nemesis and Tyche, Athenian red-figure amphora C5th B.C., Antikensammlung Berlin
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