Bonus Eventus

Bonus Eventus ("Good Outcome") was a divine personification in ancient Roman religion. The Late Republican scholar Varro lists him as one of the twelve deities who presided over agriculture,^[1] paired with Lympha, the goddess who influenced the water supply. The original function of Bonus Eventus may have been agricultural,^[2] but during the Imperial era, he represents a more general concept of success and was among the numerous abstractions who appeared as icons on Roman coins.

^ Varro, De re rustica 1.1.4–6; Clifford Ando, The Palladium and the Pentateuch: Towards a Sacred Topography of the Later Roman Empire, Phoenix 55 3.4 (2001), p. 383.
^ Lawrence Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), p. 60.

[1] Varro, De re rustica 1.1.4–6; Clifford Ando, The Palladium and the Pentateuch: Towards a Sacred Topography of the Later Roman Empire, Phoenix 55 3.4 (2001), p. 383.

[2] Lawrence Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), p. 60.

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