Greek Mythology

Nike

Also known as: Victory · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.2

Life events

  • Zeus honors Styx, makes her the gods’ great oath, and keeps her children with him.(Hesiod, Theogony 295-404 · 📍 Olympus)
    • With: Styx Pallas Zelus Cratos Bia Zeus
    • “So deathless Styx came first to Olympus with her children through the wit of her dear father. And Zeus honoured her, and gave her very great gifts, for her he appointed to be the great oath of the gods, and her children to live with him always.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.2

  • parent: Pallas “to Pallas and Styx were born Victory, Dominion, Emulation, and Violence”
  • parent: Styx “to Pallas and Styx were born Victory, Dominion, Emulation, and Violence”

Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

  • parent: Pallas “And Styx the daughter of Ocean was joined to Pallas and bare Zelus (Emulation) and trim-ankled Nike (Victory)”
  • with Zeus (interaction) “but they dwell always with Zeus the loud-thunderer.”
  • guardian: Zeus “her children to live with him always”

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