Fortuna
by Iiro Kajanto, Helsinki
Contents
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| 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 |