Tychè en famille : généalogies et profil divin

Pausanias was astonished that Homer made no mention of Tyche, whom he considered to be a great divine power in his time. In fact, the Homeric epic knows neither the concept nor the goddess. Hesiod, on the other hand, makes her one of the three thousand daughters of Okeanos, and various archaic poets have drawn different genealogies for her. This article examines the divine profile of Tyche in relation to these family configurations. It also analyses another expression of such a relationship, inscribed on an Athenian dedicatory relief found in Piraeus and dated to the mid-fourth century BC (IG II2 4627).