Jupiter fathered Fortuna, the goddess of fortune and chance, who dispenses good and ill luck to mortals according to her turning wheel.
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.
Fortuna loved King Servius Tullius and visited him nightly through a small window in his house. His rise from servile birth to Rome's throne embodied her power to elevate the humble, and he built multiple temples in her honor.
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