agathe tyche

Latin noun
quoted from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-01
Primary meaning place of good fortune
Literal translation good fortune
Variants
agathe tyche
Edited by
place of good fortune astrological place

5th astrological place

Dea Deus Bona fortuna ac Bonus daemon, quae a Graecis hactenus nominantur: thea, theos, agathe tyche, agathos daemon

‘Goddess, God, Good fortune, Bad fortune, which are called by the Greeks as follows: thea, theos, agathe tyche, agathos daemon’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.16.1

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.59

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). agathe tyche (Lemma #996). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/996/
Chicago (Author-Date)
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Meinhardt, K. (2023). agathe tyche (Lemma #996). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/996/
Harvard
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BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac996,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {agathe tyche ({Lemma} #996)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/996/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/996/},
}