Nike was the ancient Greek goddess of victory--victory both in war and in peaceful competition. When Zeus was gathering allies at the start of the Titan War, Styx brought her four children Nike, Zelos, Cratus and Bia into the service of the god. Nike was
Nike, the winged goddess, was born to the Titan Pallas and the nymph Styx. Nike’s father, Pallas, was the Titan god that handled warcraft. He was the son of Titans Crius and Eurybia; and during the Titanomachy, Pallas fought against the Olympians – a new and powerful generation of ...
Nike is the goddess of victory, both in war and peaceful competition, she was often depicted in Greek art as Winged Victory in the motion of flight, however, she can also appear without wings as "Wingless Victory" when she is being portrayed as an attribute of another deity such as Athena...
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ARES was the Olympian god of war, battlelust, courage and civil order. In ancient Greek art he was depicted as either a mature, bearded warrior armed for battle, or a nude, beardless youth with a helm and spear.MYTHSAres had an adulterous affair with the goddess Aphrodite but her husband...
1. Nike of Samothrace Winged Nike (Nike of Samothrace), circa 200-175 BCE. Source: the Louvre This stunning marble sculpture, dating from the 2nd century BCE, depictsNike, the Greek goddess of victory. The statue captures the dynamic movement of Nike with her billowing drapery, conveying a ...
Ares (Mars) – Greek God of War Artemis (Diana) – Greek Goddess of Mountains, Forests and Hunting Athena (Minerva) – Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War Demeter (Ceres) – Greek Goddess of Harvest, Fertility and Agriculture Dionysus (Bacchus) – Greek God of Wine and Grape Harvest ...
In early classical plastic art, along with heroic figures (for example, the group sculpture The Tyrannicides by Critius and Nesiotes, 477; the statue of Nike by Paeonius, c. 455; and the statue of Poseidon or Zeus from Cape Artemisium, c. 450), lofty lyrical works were created (the ...
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Percy Jackson's Greek Gods is a collection of stories from Greek mythology told from the demigod Percy Jackson's point of view. The book talks about the origins of the Olympian gods (and of their ancestors, the Titans and the Protogenoi) and other storie