 | Alexander Stuart Murray - 1874 - 496 pàgines
...Sometimes she was represented with a ball on her head, or with a cornucopia in her hands. In Plate XXI. she appears draped, her arms bare, a horn of plenty...the rudder indicating the rapid turns of fortune. XXX. Nike, or Victoria. Herakles (Hercules). Tyche was worshipped in many places in Greece, but especially... | |
 | Alexander Stuart Murray - 1875 - 476 pàgines
...Sometimes she was represented with a ball on her head, or with a cornucopia in her hands. In Plate XXI. she appears draped, her arms bare, a horn of plenty...she was popularly believed to reside constantly as a favouring deity. In Italy the worship of Fortuna was wide-spread, and a general festival held in her... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1920 - 390 pàgines
...Smyrna, where was a statue of her bearing up the globe on her head. She was usually represented with the horn of plenty in one hand and a rudder in the other, as the one who supplied the good things of life, but also as the one who directed its course. To resist... | |
 | Jules Adeline - 1927 - 442 pàgines
...Romans, and called by the former Tyche. In art she is represented as a draped female figure, holding a horn of plenty in one hand and a rudder in the other. Sometimes a ball lies beside her, emblematic of the sudden revolutions of fortune. Forum. (Arch.) An... | |
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... ball or a wheel, to indicate that luck rolls like a ball, without choice, undoing all the efforts of this one, and overwhelming that one with wealth and prosperity. Sometimes she was represented with a ball on her head, or with a cornucopia in her... 