It gets major attention in Consolation of Philosophy, as Boethius reflected on his meteoric rise and sudden fall in the late Roman era.
The phrase originates in the celestial spheres that populated the Ptolemaic model of the universe.  The ninth of these contained the signs of the zodiac. A later metaphorical object was a rolling rock. It gets major attention in Consolation of Philosophy, as Boethius reflected on his meteoric rise and sudden fall in the late Roman era. In Hamlet, a recitation of the Trojan War introduces this concept, with the plea for "All you gods,/ In general synod take away her power;/ Break all the spokes and fellies" of it. FTP, name this concept in medieval philosophy, describing the capricious nature of Fate, also the name of a popular game show.
The phrase originates in the celestial spheres that populated the Ptolemaic model of the universe.  
Wheel of Fortune