Fortuna (, equivalent to the
Greek goddess
Tyche) was the goddess of fortune and
personification of
luck in
Roman religion. She might bring good or bad luck: she could be represented as veiled and blind, as in modern depictions of
Justice, and came to represent life's capriciousness. She was also a goddess of
fate: as
Atrox Fortuna, she claimed the young lives of the
princeps Augustus' grandsons
Gaius and
Lucius, prospective heirs to the Empire.