Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (Mar 2011)

Polybius and Stoic <i>Tyche</i>

  • René Brouwer

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 51, no. 1
pp. 111 – 132

Abstract

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Polybius’ notion of tyche resembles that of the Stoics in that it is epistemological: he allows chance to be invoked for phenomena whose causes cannot or cannot yet be discovered by our limited human understanding.