Tyche
-Another name for her is Fortuna
-During the Hellenistic period cities made their own version of Tyche wearing a mural crown (a crown like the walls of the city)
-The Greek historian, Polybius, believed that natural disasters contributed to the growing fame of TycheIn literature
-Stylianos Spyridakis talks about Tyche: "In the turbulent years of the Epigoni of Alexander, an awareness of the instability of human affairs led people to believe that Tyche, the blind mistress of Fortune, governed mankind with an inconstancy which explained the vicissitudes of the time."
-Is known as either daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite, Oceanus and Tethys, or Zeus
-Sister is Nemesis, who is also her alter-ego
-Connected with Agathos Daimon, or 'good spirit'
-In the Hellenistic Era, she was on many coins
-The Virgo Constellation is also described as Tyche, Demeter, or Astraea
-Tyche is also like the Roman goddess, Roma, and the buddhist goddess Hariti
-During the Hellenistic period cities made their own version of Tyche wearing a mural crown (a crown like the walls of the city)
-The Greek historian, Polybius, believed that natural disasters contributed to the growing fame of TycheIn literature
-Stylianos Spyridakis talks about Tyche: "In the turbulent years of the Epigoni of Alexander, an awareness of the instability of human affairs led people to believe that Tyche, the blind mistress of Fortune, governed mankind with an inconstancy which explained the vicissitudes of the time."
-Is known as either daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite, Oceanus and Tethys, or Zeus
-Sister is Nemesis, who is also her alter-ego
-Connected with Agathos Daimon, or 'good spirit'
-In the Hellenistic Era, she was on many coins
-The Virgo Constellation is also described as Tyche, Demeter, or Astraea
-Tyche is also like the Roman goddess, Roma, and the buddhist goddess Hariti
Nemesis
-In greek mythology, Nemesis is also known as Rhamnousia/Rhamnusia
-She was the spirit of divine retribution
-Nemesis was honored in an old sanctuary in the district of Rhamnous, in northeastern Attica.
-There she was a daughter of Oceanus, the river-ocean that encircles the world
-She is the daughter of Oceanus and Zeus, but Hasid says she is the daughter of Erebus and Nyx
- Hasid states about Nemesis' birth, "Also deadly Nyx bore Nemesis an affliction to mortals subject to death."
-She produced the egg that hatched the two sets of twins, Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra and Castor and Pollux (a.k.a. the Dioscuri)
-Many say the parents of Helen of Troy is Zeus and Leda, but another myth says that in order to avoid Zeus, Nemesis turned into a goose but he turned into a swan and mated with her. In her bird form, she lays an egg that a shepard finds, then he gives it to Leda. Helen of Troy comes out of the egg, so Leda becomes her mother because she kept the egg in a chest until it hatched
-The word "Nemesis" had meant fortune, neither good or bad, but to be associated with Tyche, the people changed it to bad
-She was the spirit of divine retribution
-Nemesis was honored in an old sanctuary in the district of Rhamnous, in northeastern Attica.
-There she was a daughter of Oceanus, the river-ocean that encircles the world
-She is the daughter of Oceanus and Zeus, but Hasid says she is the daughter of Erebus and Nyx
- Hasid states about Nemesis' birth, "Also deadly Nyx bore Nemesis an affliction to mortals subject to death."
-She produced the egg that hatched the two sets of twins, Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra and Castor and Pollux (a.k.a. the Dioscuri)
-Many say the parents of Helen of Troy is Zeus and Leda, but another myth says that in order to avoid Zeus, Nemesis turned into a goose but he turned into a swan and mated with her. In her bird form, she lays an egg that a shepard finds, then he gives it to Leda. Helen of Troy comes out of the egg, so Leda becomes her mother because she kept the egg in a chest until it hatched
-The word "Nemesis" had meant fortune, neither good or bad, but to be associated with Tyche, the people changed it to bad