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Victoria
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Roman goddess of victory
Key facts
- Symbol
- Golden sandals, wings, wreaths
- Temple
- Temple of Victory , Palatine Hill
- Greek
- Nike
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- Image
- Victoria Goldelse Siegessaeule Berlin.jpg
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- Commons category
- Victoria (goddess)
- IPA transcription
- wikˈtoː.ri.a
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In ancient Roman religion Victoria was the deified personification of victory. She first appeared during the first Punic War, seemingly as a Romanised re-naming of Nike, the goddess of victory associated with Rome's Greek allies in the Greek mainland and in Magna Graecia. Thereafter she comes to symbolise Rome's eventual hegemony and right to rule. She is a deified abstraction, entitled to a cult, but unlike Nike, she has virtually no mythology of her own.
History and iconography