The Nike of Megara (Greek: Νίκη των Μεγάρων) is a large ancient Greek marble sculpture of the late fourth or early third century BC. The Hellenistic statue depicts Nike, the winged Greek goddess of victory; its arms, wings and head are not preserved. The statue was discovered in the nineteenth century near Megara, a town near Athens, Greece. It is kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, although in storage, and not in exhibition.
The NikeofMegara (Greek: Νίκη των Μεγάρων) is a large ancient Greek marble sculpture of the late fourth or early third century BC. The Hellenistic statue...
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of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the...
it more likely that it was a victory monument. NikeofMegara Victoria Romana (Hadrian's Library) Nikeof Epidaurus Alexandra Gulaki. Klassische und Klassizistische...
are forced to withdraw. Demosthenes and Hippocrates attempt to capture Megara, but they are defeated by the Spartans under their general Brasidas. Demosthenes...
including the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike. The Parthenon and the other buildings were seriously damaged during the...
denotes a jealous or spiteful woman. She is not to be confused with Megara, the wife of Heracles. Minor planet 464 Megaira is named in her honour. The 1964...
part of a pattern of "ethicizing" Heracles over the 5th century BCE. Later, in Thebes, Heracles married King Creon's daughter, Megara. In a fit of madness...
epithets include Ageleia, Itonia and Aethyia, under which she was worshiped in Megara. The word aíthyia (αἴθυια) signifies a "diver", also some diving bird species...
Greeks from Megara in the 7th century BC and remained primarily Greek-speaking until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in AD 1453. The etymology of Byzantium...
prepare a defensive line across the Isthmus of Corinth, building a wall, and demolishing the road from Megara, thereby abandoning Athens to the Persians...
frustrates the Athenian attack on Megara, Brasidas marches through Boeotia and Thessaly to Chalcidice at the head of 700 helots and 1000 Peloponnesian...
from Megara 710s Eretrian abandonment of Andros 709 Kroton is founded by Achaeans 707 Taras is founded by Dorians 705 Hybla Minor is annexed by Megara Hyblaea...
fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states (including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara), and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I (allied with Greece's...
Athens. The strategic importance ofMegara is immediately demonstrated by the appearance, for the first time in 12 years, of a Spartan army under King Pleistoanax...
founder-king of Thebes Car, a king ofMegara Catreus, a king of Crete, prophesied to die at the hands of his own son Cecrops, an autochthonous king of Athens...
of recomfort. Her Roman equivalent was the goddess Consolatio. Pausanias wrote that a statue of this goddess was in the temple of Aphrodite in Megara...
revere; Nightly, profound, in secret who retire, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megara dire: Deep in a cavern merg'd, involv'd in night, near where Styx flows...
examples of Nyx having played a role in cult. According to Pausanias, there was an oracle which belonged to Night on the acropolis ofMegara, alongside...
and their remains were put into pits called megara. An inscription from Delos shows that part of the cost of the Thesmophoria there went towards paying...
alliances, the Peloponnesian League, with cities including Corinth, Elis, and Megara, isolating Messenia and reinforcing Sparta's position against Argos, the...
therefore Poseidon was the promotor of vegetation. He had the epithet phytalmios (φυτάλμιος) at Myconos, Troizen, Megara and Rhodes, comparable with Ptorthios...
Major cults to Demeter are known at Eleusis in Attica, Hermion (in Crete), Megara, Celeae, Lerna, Aegila, Munychia, Corinth, Delos, Priene, Akragas, Iasos...
built on Crete during the Bronze Age. They are often considered emblematic of the Minoan civilization and are modern tourist destinations. Archaeologists...
belonged to Magna Graecia, in this case Taranto, Metapontum and Megara Hyblaea. Characteristic of this new urban concept, which later spread also in the motherland...
as Byzantium by Greek colonists from Megara, led by the eponymous Byzas, around 658 BC. The city then consisted of a small region around an acropolis located...
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