Definition of "Tyche"

The goddess Tyche was a very important deity in the Hellenistic world.15 "She was not blind chance, but some order of affairs that men could not comprehend."19 Tyche played her part in great events and in small ones […] .

1933, Richard Mansfield Haywood, Studies on Scipio Africanus, Johns Hopkins Press, page 12

At Caesarea, several gems depicting a Tyche, as well as a possible statue of Tyche found at Caesarea, show attributes of Isis.

2000, Terence L. Donaldson (editor), Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, page 113

Following the dedicatory page is the illustrated section II, comprising the representations of the city goddesses or divine Fortunes (Tyches) of four major cities of the late Roman empire.

1990, Michele Renee Salzman, On Roman Time, University of California Press, page 27

The Tyches of individual cities featured prominently in late ancient art and coinage.

2011, Alexei Sivertsev, Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, page 90