Winged victory

A winged victory is a female winged figure representing a classical goddess of victory (Nike, Victoria, Bellona), or, especially if in a pair, a general personification of victory. Winged victory may also refer to:

• The Greek goddess Nike (mythology)
• Her Roman equivalent, Victoria (mythology)
• Winged Victory of Samothrace, a well known sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike in the Louvre Museum.
• Winged Victory of Samothrace, Kunsthistorisches Museum, a second Nike, a Roman copy, found in Samothrace by a team of Austrian archaeologists
• Winged Victory of Samothrace, museum of Samothrace, a third Nike, found in Samothrace from Phyllis Williams Lehmann in 1949
• Winged Victory of Brescia, a Greek statue of 3rd century BC, found in Brescia in 1826

Modern media

• Winged Victory (play), a World War II-era play by Moss Hart which debuted in 1943
  • Winged Victory (film), a 1944 film by George Cukor based on the play
• Winged Victory (novel), a semi-autobiographical novel by Victor Maslin Yeates
• Winged Victory (comics), a superheroine in the Astro City comic book series