Tyche was the Goddess of Fortune. It is widely accepted that she was the daughter of Zeus, though some reports give her to be the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys (see above). It was in her temple that the first dice was reportedly made. If however, she ends up bestowing wealth upon so...
Aphrodite is a major female deity in the Greek Pantheon, she is the goddess and personification of beauty, love, sex, pleasure, passion and procreation and a member of The Twelve Olympians in Greek Mythology. Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love, Beauty and
This Roman deity was mainly the goddess of wealth and fertility of the earth, in fact the very origin of the name is linked to that meaning of wealth or abundance. Another meaning of the wordopsis to work or plow the land. For this reason he was a very present deity in Roman cults w...
he, in the first place, by his nearness of kin to deity, was the only creature that worshipped gods, and set himself to establish altars and holy images; and secondly, he soon was enabled by his skill to articulate speech and words, and to invent dwellings, ...
MOIRA (Moira) properly signifies "a share," and as a personification " the deity who assigns to every man his fate or his share," or the Fates. Homer usually speaks of only one Moira, and only once mentions the Moirai in the plural. (Il. xxiv. 29.) In his poems Moira is fate ...
Moerae –Goddesses of fate: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Tyche –Goddess of fortune. Nike –Goddess of victory. Nike and her brothers – Zelus, Kratos, and Bia were the children of the Titan Pallas and the Oceanid Styx. Paeëon (Paeeon) was the god of healing. Asclepius –God of ...
Indo-European roots and (Greek tragedy probably being so called because it developed from a ritual or festival procession involving a goat as the sacrifice or the prize for the composition of a song, or perhaps because festival participants wore animal masks and skins, including those of goats)...
Moros wielded an unsurpassed level of control, even transcending death itself. He was not a god who merely controlled life or died alone. Still, he governed destiny itself, making him an all-seeing and all-knowing entity unparalleled by any other deity in existence. ...
Between the Deity and the emperor there is no intermediary” (P.G., LXXXVI, 1177). The Divine call to the empire gave the emperor a sacred character, and the anointing, the sign of priesthood, became his by Divine right. To take the life of the Basileus or attack his authority was ...
NEMESIS was the goddess of indignation against, and retribution for, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune. She was a personification of the resentment aroused in men by those who commited crimes with apparent impunity, or who had inordinate good fortune. Nemesis directed human affairs in such ...