Fortuna (mythology)

A statue of Fortuna

Fortuna was the goddess of fortune, luck and fate in Roman mythology. Fortuna could bestow good or bad luck onto people. She was sometimes represented veiled and blind. She was a daughter of Jupiter and like him, she could also be bountiful and generous to everybody.

Fortuna (mythology) Media

Fortuna governs the circle of the four stages of life, the Wheel of Fortune, in a manuscript of Carmina Burana
The humiliation of Emperor Valerian by king Shapur I of Persia (260) passed into European cultural memory as an instance of the reversals of Fortuna. In Hans Holbein's pen-and-ink drawing (1521), the universal lesson is brought home by its contemporary setting.
illustration by Al-Biruni (973-1048) of different phases of the moon, from the Persian Kitab al-tafhim
Lady Fortune in a Boccaccio manuscript

Related pages

Tyche - Greek mythology version of Fortuna
The Wheel of Fortune

Other websites

Media related to Fortuna at Wikimedia Commons

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