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'victory'; [nǐː.kɛː]) is the goddess who personifies victory in any field including art, music, war, and athletics. [3] She is often portrayed in Greek art as "Winged Victory" in the motion of flight; [4] however, she can also appear without wings as "Wingless Victory" [5] when she is being portrayed as an attribute of another deity such as ...
Victoria (or Nike) on a fresco from Pompeii, Neronian era. In ancient Roman religion Victoria was the deified personification of victory. She first appeared during the first Punic War, seemingly as a Romanised re-naming of Nike, the goddess of victory associated with Rome's Greek allies in the Greek mainland and in Magna Graecia.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, [2] is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace in the northeastern Aegean Sea.It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC).
The piece is a 1.70 metre high statue of a winged woman cast from bronze. This is the traditional iconography of the Roman victory goddess, Victoria. She stands atop a globe and is depicted in the style of a Hellenistic maenad performing a movement somewhere between dancing and floating.
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
Winged Victory of Brescia, 1st century BC: the earlier goddess Vica Pota became identified with Victory personified In the Apocolocyntosis , Vica Pota is the mother of Diespiter; [ 3 ] although usually identified with Jupiter , Diespiter is here treated as a separate deity, and in the view of Arthur Bernard Cook should perhaps be regarded as ...
Nike was the goddess of victory in Greek mythology, and Athena was worshipped in this form, representative of being victorious in war. The citizens worshipped the goddesses in hopes of a successful outcome in the long Peloponnesian War fought against the Spartans and allies.
It is said, in some versions, that the Goddess Durga actually assumes the form of Goddess Kāli at this time. Kali destroys Raktabija by sucking the blood from his body and putting the many Raktabija duplicates in her gaping mouth. Pleased with her victory, Kali then dances on the field of battle, stepping on the corpses of the slain.