#nikegoddess

[ritterton]

Another incredible statue on display at the Getty Villa. Just an exquisite terra cotta figure with an incense burner attached.

[aleacarnada]

Athena: Nike is my favourite attendant!

Ares, angry: No, she is my favourite!

Hermes: Nike, who is your favourite god or goddess? Who do you prefer?

Nike: None, I like both.

Apollo: Oh Nike, come on, choose one!

Athena: This is not your business, so why do you want her to choose?

Apollo: Well ...

Athena: You and Dionysus have a bet, don't you?

Dionysus: Guilty!

Athena: Let me guess, you both lost, because you asumed that Nike will choose between me and Ares, am I right?

Dionysus: Yes!

Athena: Give me the money, as with Nike's decision of prefering both of us the money is mine and Ares'.

Dionysus: All right. *Giving Athena the money*

*Later*

Apollo: What the hell just happened? Did we loose a bet we both lost to Athena?

Dionysus: It seems like it.

Hermes: Wow, she is my new idol now!

[mark-of-sweet-renown]

O Nike, I praise and revere your name!

I fell, but you caught me and flew with me in your arms,

Safe and secure in your love.

And so I was able to triumph and soar above the storm.

Winged lady, I thank you for your lending me your strength when my own was not enough.

The peace I enjoy now would not have been possible without your intervention.

I sing your praises in gratitude, O Nike, O great Victory!

[farahhh]

Thought of using Nike Goddess of Victory in a contemporary digital collage, making her wear the Nike’s trademark ‘swoosh’ ✅ 

[nike-triumphant]

My altar to Nike!

[greekromangods]

Red-figured Kalyx-Krater (Mixing Bowl)

Greek; 4th century BC

Apulia, South Italy

Terracotta

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

(Facebook: Greek-Roman Gods & More)

Battles between Greeks and Amazons, a mythical tribe of female warriors, were popular in Greece, Etruria, and Rome. In this South Italian version, the goddess Artemis and her brother Apollo, both with bows and quivers, look down upon pairs of fighting warriors as a winged Nike (Victory), approached Athena.

[mark-of-sweet-renown]

'Tis thine in battle to confer the crown, the victor's prize, the mark of sweet renown,

For thou rul'st all things, Nike divine! And glorious strife, and joyful shouts are thine.

(Orphic Hymn #32)

[nike-triumphant]

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