Colossal head believed to be that of the cult statue of Fortuna Huiusce Diei
Fortuna Huiusce Diei ("The Fortune of This Day" or "Today's Fortune"[1]) was an aspect of the goddess Fortuna, known primarily for her temple in the Area Sacra di Largo Argentina at Rome.[2] Cicero lists her among the deities who should be cultivated in his ideal state, because "she empowers each day".[3] She thus embodies an important aspect of time as it figures in Roman religion: every day of the year had a distinct and potent nature, which the public priests were responsible for knowing and aligning the community with by means of the religious calendar.[4]
^Gary Forsythe, Time in Roman Religion: One Thousand Years of Religious History (Routledge, 2012), p. 19.
^Lawrence Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), p. 156.
^Cicero, De legibus 2.28: nam valet in omnis dies; Forsythe, Time in Roman Religion, p. 19; Anna Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 130.
^Forsythe, Time in Roman Religion, p. 19; Clark, Divine Qualities, pp. 129–130.
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