Tyche’s Family Tree

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Family

• Oceanus(parent),Tethys(parent),Achelous(sibling),Clymene(sibling),Doris(sibling),Electra(sibling),Metis(sibling),Peneus(sibling),Perse(sibling),Philyra(sibling),Plouto(sibling),Styx(sibling)— Marriage

  Oceanus and Tethys produced the three thousand Oceanids and river gods, including Styx, Electra, Clymene, Doris, Metis, Tyche, Perse, Plouto, Philyra, Peneus, and Achelous.

Member of

• Oceanids

  The Oceanids were three thousand freshwater nymphs born to Oceanus and Tethys who nurtured rivers, springs, and streams across the world. Hesiod named the eldest and most honored among them in the Theogony.

Equivalent to

• Fortuna(Roman)

  Fortuna and Tyche share the wheel, the cornucopia, and the rudder as their symbols — the Greek goddess of city-fortune absorbed into Rome's ancient Italian deity of chance, whose lot oracle at Praeneste predated the identification.

Associated with

• Plutus

  Tyche and Plutus are paired in Greek cult and art, with Tyche depicted holding the infant Plutus to symbolize fortune as the bearer of material wealth.