For the U.S game show, see Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show).
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From an edition of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel.
In medieval and ancient philosophy the Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortunae, is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna (Greek equivalent Tyche) who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel: some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls. The metaphor was already a cliché in ancient times, complained about by Tacitus, but was greatly popularized for the Middle Ages by its extended treatment in the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius from around 520. It became a common image in manuscripts of the book, and then other media, where Fortuna, often blindfolded, turns a large wheel of the sort used in watermills, to which kings and other powerful figures are attached.
In medieval and ancient philosophy the Wheel of Fortune, or RotaFortunae, is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess...
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The Wheel of Fortune or RotaFortunae has been a concept and metaphor since ancient times referring to the capricious nature of Fate. Wheel of Fortune...
the RotaFortunae, or Wheel of Fortune, which the goddess Fortuna spins at random, causing some people to suffer while others find wealth. The Rota Fortunae...
Fortuna is often depicted with a gubernaculum (ship's rudder), a ball or RotaFortunae (wheel of fortune, first mentioned by Cicero) and a cornucopia (horn...
likely lost, as well. The manuscript contains eight miniatures: the rotafortunae (which actually is an illustration from songs CB 14–18, but was placed...
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Hudsucker Proxy presents various narrative motifs pertaining to the RotaFortunae and visual motifs concerning the shape of circles. This includes Moses'...
Rosa, Laguna, Philippines Wheel of Fate (film), a 1953 British drama RotaFortunae, a concept in medieval and ancient philosophy referring to the capricious...
Calendar Clock Face, c. 1500 in the collection of M – Museum Leuven RotaFortunae Bhavacakra, a similar diagram in Buddhism The Tricks of Leonardo da...
there was four good swordsmen in the Town that kept all the women, RotaFortunae, and Ledgerdemain (card tricks) by which they got a lot of money. Mcbane...
shall not be sharpened and draw no blood whatsoever. (Welsh mythology) RotaFortunae (Wheel of Fortune), a concept referring to the capricious nature of...
stepped stalls and a pulpit. Removal of these revealed the medieval RotaFortunae ("Wheel of Life") painting and the original patterning of the walls...
Statuette of the Roman god Fortuna, with gubernaculum (ship's rudder), RotaFortunae (wheel of fortune) and cornucopia (horn of plenty) found near the altar...
(Aristotle) - Rhetoric to Alexander - Ring of Gyges - Rival Lovers - RotaFortunae - Gaius Musonius Rufus Sage (Sophos) - Sallustius of Emesa - Samkhyakarika...
fashion, hence the 'wheel' concept: this notion was also inspired by the 'RotaFortunae' of Orff's Carmina Burana. "McKinnon, Arlon (2000). Passion Wheels (CD...
Agricola Roger Bacon Roland of Cremona Roscelin of Compiègne Roscellinus RotaFortunae Scholasticism School of Saint Victor Scotism Sensus communis Sentences...
Liedern der Edda, in regard to the Eddic poem, Grottasöngr. Hamlet's Mill RotaFortunae Axis Mundi Wyrd Sampo Dark Satanic Mills Mills of God Grótti Mackenzie...
birth. His final two works employ the analogy of the wheel of fortune (rotafortunae) and may have been accompanied by visual aids in performance, much as...
Flaminia, which runs southeast along the Adriatic Sea, turning at Fanum Fortunae (Fano) to finish in Roma (Rome); the Via Aemilia, which runs northwest...
fresco decorations by Vincenzo Angelo Orelli, such as the Homo faber suae fortunae, and Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini. During the 19th century, some public buildings...
Bergamo. Antonio Astesano: Poem on variety of fortunes (Carmen de varietate fortunae) or on the life and deeds of the city of Asti from its foundation to 1342...
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