Eventus was the Roman God of harvests, and is one of Varus’s twelve Gods. Over time, as the Roman economy evolved, Eventus lost his original connotation as an agricultural divinity and went on to become the God of positive results and success. The Romans dedicated the Temple of Campo Marzio, at the Terme di Agrippa, to Eventus.
Pliny the Elder describes two statues of Bonus Eventus on the Campidoglio, the first attributed to Praxiteles, the second to Euphranor. The God Eventus was also very highly thought of in the Gaulish and Germanic provinces, where he was considered to be the husband of the female divinity Fortune.
Since time immemorial, the image of this divinity has been linked to that of Ouroboros, which is the animal – usually the snake or the dragon – that bites and swallows its own tail.
This symbolic image represents, in animal form, the circle as a personification of the eternal return, which indicates that every ending corresponds to a new beginning.
The pairing of these two images, borrowed from Roman mythology and classical symbology, is an attempt to cement the link between success, continuity and perfection and to perpetuate it over time. This is the same philosophy that has characterised the history and evolution of Micromegas and that has made the company a European leader in the planning and organisation of events.
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