To Each His Own

This chapter studies Fortuna connected with age and gender groups or with individuals in the late Republican period. The first part focuses on Fortuna associated with age and gender groups through epithets including Muliebris, Virgo, Virilis, Barbata. The worship of these deities was not reserved to the relevant age or gender groups, and the complexity of rituals and representations implies that they were used for the social, political, and cultural construction of these age and gender categories. The second part studies the evidence pointing at a connection between late Republican dynasts and Fortuna, from Sulla to Caesar. Sulla and Caesar show a strong interest in Fortuna but a reluctance to directly claim a relationship with the goddess. Pompey was probably more open to making such claims. There is no trace in this period of a Roman adoption of the Hellenistic practice of the worship of the fortune of the ruler.

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