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Accompanying Fortuna Analysis
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In 8 CE, the Roman poet Ovid (43BCE-18CE) was exiled to the remote port-town of Tomis. Located in Moesia Inferior, modern day Romania, Tomis was an important port in the Black Sea trade circuit. The Constanța (Tomis) Museum of Art, today houses an imperial marble sculpture of Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance, luck, and fate. Accompanying Fortuna is a depiction of Pontos, a Greek sea-god, who wields a prora (bow). The sculpture arguably represents the alliance between Fortuna and the town of Tomis. Because it was a port-town, it seems rather natural for ancient sailors to desire to receive the patronage of the goddess, but Roman literature demonstrates that the correlations between the sea and Fortuna were much deeper and more complex than ....

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