This small sculpture of the goddess Nike was carved more than 2,500 ... pulling their skirts to one side. Nike was the winged goddess of victory. Athletes who wanted to win worshipped her. Even today, ...

Countless masterpieces in the Louvre, such as the Nike or Winged Victory of Samothrace, were saved from the Nazis in Word War II.

This is similar design to the huge, 13m 'wonder of world' statue of Zeus with winged Nike overseeing Olympic games at Elis, a uniting brand for the factious Greeks. The teenage Alexander the Great ...