Nike (Greek deity)

LC control no.	no2019004704
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Nike (Greek deity) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Νίκη (Greek deity) Nika (Greek deity) Ніка (Greek deity) Нике (Greek deity) Ника (Greek deity) Nice (Greek deity) Niko (Greek deity) ניקה (Greek deity) Niḳah (Greek deity) ニーケー (Greek deity) 尼刻 (Greek deity)
See also	Victoria (Roman deity) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Associated country	Greece
Field of activity	Victory
Special note	Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	Baudrillart, André. Les divinités de la victoire en Grèce et en Italie d'après les textes et les monuments figurés, 1894. Knell, Heiner. Die Nike von Samothrake, ©1995. Britannica online, January 10, 2019 (Nike, Greek goddess; Nike, in Greek religion, the goddess of victory, daughter of the giant Pallas and of the infernal River Styx. Nike probably did not originally have a separate cult at Athens. As an attribute of both Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and the chief god, Zeus, Nike was represented in art as a small figure carried in the hand by those divinities. Athena Nike was always wingless; Nike alone was winged; At Rome, where Nike was called Victoria, she was worshiped from the earliest times) GreekMythology.com, January 10, 2019 (Nike was the goddess of victory in Greek mythology, depicted as having wings, hence her alternative name "Winged Goddess". She was the daughter of the Titan Pallas and the goddess Styx) <https://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Nike/nike.html> Wikipedia, January 10, 2019: Nike (mythology) (In ancient Greek religion, Nike (Ancient Greek: Νίκη = Nikē) was a goddess who personified victory. Her Roman equivalent was Victoria) Azerbaijani page (Nika) Belarusian page (Ніка = Nika) Bulgarian page (Нике = Nike; Ника = Nika) Catalan page (Nice or Niké) Esperanto page (Niko) Hebrew page (ניקה = Niḳah) Japanese page (ニーケー = Nīkē) Chinese page (尼刻 = Nike)
Invalid LCCN	sh 85091937