VV(18) - Venus & Fortune

[David Morris]

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/weekly/aa020100b.htm

"She was the goddess of chastity in women, despite the fact that she had 
many affairs with both gods and mortals. As Venus Genetrix, she was 
worshiped as the mother (by Anchises) of the hero Aeneas, the founder of the 
Roman people; as Venus Felix, the bringer of good fortune; as Venus Victrix, 
the bringer of victory; and as Venus Verticordia, the protector of feminine 
chastity. Venus is also a nature goddess, associated with the arrival of 
spring. She is the bringer of joy to gods and humans. Venus really had no 
myths of her own but was so closely identified with the Greek Aphrodite that 
she "took over" Aphrodite's myths."

http://inst.santafe.cc.fl.us/~jbieber/Italy/P-fven2.htm
Pompeii Close-up of Felix Venus Mural

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear/s3287.html
Sear Roman Coins and their Values [1984 edition] s3287
Severina AE denarius. VENVS FELIX, Venus standing left helding Cupid and 
scepter. Cohen 14, RIC 6.






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