They repeat that she is blind for this reason: that she does not see where she's heading They affirm that, wherever chance pushes that rock, Fortuna falls in that direction. Philosophers say that Fortune is insane and blind and stupid,Īnd they teach that she stands on a rolling, spherical rock: The typical attitude toward Fortune, now personified as a fickle goddess, Fortuna in Latin, Tyche in Greek,is expressed by a Roman tragedian of the 1st century b.c ( Pacuvius, Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta. Its first is the zodiac, called "the wheel of fortunes" it "moves from east to west/ and includes each of the twelve signs of fortune, the signs of the zodiac." Given that the zodiac was used for telling fortunes in ancient Babylon, it is possible that the idea of a "wheel of fortune" goes back that far. Wikipedia cites numerous historical examples starting from the first century b.c.e. 8) said, “Anyone who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.” The philosopher and playwright Seneca expressed the same sentiment in numerous ways, as did many others. In the same vein Ammianus Marcellinus ( Historia, XXVI.
Godley, translator, Herodotus (1931), vol.
Herodotus, writing in the 5th century b.c.e, said, “Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever” (A. The idea of Fortune as controlling a wheel that turns up and down unpredictably has its roots in ancient Greece and Rome.
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