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What is good luck and what did it mean to the Romans? What connections were there between luck and childbirth, victory in war, or success in business? What did Roman statesmen like Cicero and Caesar think about luck? This volume aims to address these questions by focusing on the Latin goddess Fortuna, one of the better known deities in ancient Italy. The earliest forms of her worship can be traced back to archaic Latium, and though the chronological scope of the discussion presented here covers
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- Author
- Daniele Miano
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191090141
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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