Victory (Nike)
“Nike”
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Victory · lady Victory
in the texts
Exordia
Victory (Nike), one of the gods named among the recipients of the sacrifices reported by the speaker's commission.
Therefore our commission has been duly discharged for you, for we have sacrificed to Zeus the Saviour and to Athena and to Victory, and these sacrifices have been auspicious and salutary for you.
Ion
Goddess of victory invoked by the Chorus to come from Olympus to the Pythian shrine.
Come, O lady Victory, come to the Pythian shrine, winging thy way from the gilded chambers of Olympus to the city’s streets, where Phoebus at his altar on the centre of the world brings his oracles to pass beside the dance-encircled tripod;