Roman Fortuna

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Detail from Aubrey Beardsley’s illustration to Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’
Luck be a Saint – An Irishman’s Diary about the changing fortunes of June 24th

In the Roman calendar, June 24th was the feast of Fors Fortuna, the goddess of fortune. Her cult survives today in the form of Lady Luck, and modern w(...)