Bonus Eventus

"Good ending." The personification of success and good harvest and the favorable issue of events. His statue stood on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, near the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. The temple of Bonus Eventus probably stood west of the thermae Agrippae.

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Iconography

The deity was represented as holding in one hand a cup and in the other a spray of wheat or other grain.

References

Sources

  • Ammianus Marcellinus. Rerum Gestarum xxix, 6.19.
  • Varro. On Agricultural Topics i.