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Plutus

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Plutus as a child on the arm of Tyche

Plutus

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Definition: Plutus was the Greek personification of riches. Plutus may have been born in Crete to Demeter and Iasion. He was supposedly blinded by Zeus. In Thebes and Athens Plutus is represented as a child on the arm of Tyche.
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The word plutocracy comes from the Greek god Plutus. It means rule by the wealthy.

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