Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.17.1, pp. 502-558
 
Fortuna
by Iiro Kajanto, Helsinki

Contents

I. Fortuna in Religion 503

1. Origin of the cult of Fortuna

503

2. Is Fortuna of Etruscan origin?

506

3. The epithets of Fortuna

509

a) List of the epithets of Fortuna

510

a') Vis Fortunae

510

b') Fortuna hominum

513

c') Fortuna locorum

514

d') Epithets of uncertain meaning

515

e') Divine epithets of Fortuna

515

f') Identified with other deities

516

b) Analysis of the material

516

c) Fortuna Augusta/Augusti, Fortuna Redux

517

4. The iconography of Fortuna

518
II. Fortuna in Literature 521

1. The meanings of the word fortuna

521

a) Passive meanings

521

b) Fortuna denoting chance

522

c) Fortuna denoting luck. Sulla Felix

522

d) Personal fortuna

524

e) Fortuna/tyche

525

a') A history of Greek tyche

525

b') Characteristics of fortuna/tyche

530

2. The attitude of the Roman authors to fortuna

532

a) The Republican period

533

a') Cicero

534

b') Sallust

536

c') Caesar

537

b) The Augustan age

538

a') Livy

538

b') Virgil

539

c') Horace

540

d') Elegiac poets

541

c) The Imperial period

542

a') Seneca the Younger

542

b') Tacitus

544

c') Florus

546

d') Curtius Rufus

548

e') Lucan

549

f') Apuleius

551

g') Ammianus Marcellinus

552

d) Christian authors

553

a') Fortuna as a pagan inheritance

553

b') Christian attitude to fortuna

555
Bibliography 557
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