Victoria (mythology)

Victoria
Goddess of victory
Victoria (or Nike) on a fresco from Pompeii, Neronian era
Symbol	Golden sandals, wings, wreaths
Temple	Temple of Victory, Palatine Hill
Equivalents
Greek	Nike

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.