Nike

Goddess of victory. Nike (Victory) and her brothers – Zelus (Emulation), Cratus (Strength) and Bia (Force), were the children of the Titan Pallas and the Oceanid Styx. Sometimes her name just appeared as Victory.

Of the four children, Nike appeared to be more than just an abstract personification of victory. Nike was often depicted as a winged goddess. Though, Strength (Cratus) appeared with Violence in Aeschylus' play, titled Prometheus Bound.

When war broke out between the Titans and the Olympians, Zeus offered any Titan or children of the Titans honoured places if they sided with him. So it was that Styx and her children were the first to come and aid the new gods against the Titans.

When the war ended, Styx's children lived in Olympus with Zeus, and he rewarded Styx with one of the highest honours: for any god who swore an oath by her name, that oath would be inviolable.

The attributes of Nike and her brothers actually became the attributes of Zeus. Zeus was sometimes called Zeus Nike, which is the Victorious Zeus. Sometimes the name Nike was also attached to Athena's name.

In the Homeric Hymns to Ares, there was another goddess named Victory, but she was the daughter of Ares.