The small marble temple on the rock’s southwest corner dedicated to Athena Nike (Victorious Athena ... along with the base of the cult statue of the goddess also found in 1936, and a tower ...

Nike was the Greek goddess of victory and an attendant of Zeus. While not among the 12 Olympian gods, she is described as a ...

It was larger and more opulent than any temple that had been constructed on the Greek ... about the Athena Parthenos, however, is that this glorious expression of Athens' patron goddess stood ...

A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods ... The most famous temple in Greece was the Parthenon in Athens. Inside stood a giant statue of Athena, the ...

VATICAN MUSEUMS According to one version of the ancient Greek mythology ... a beautiful mortal priestess in Athena's temple.

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena. The sculpture, which has remained out of public view for centuries, will be on display ...

and Athena her epithet, from a temple room where young girls wove sacred textiles used in the worship of the goddess. (The word parthenon in its Greek form means "of the virgins.") A similar cult ...