Winged Victory of Samothrace Facts for Kids

The Winged Victory of Samothrace

Assembly attempt, 1879

The Winged Victory of Samothrace (or Nike of Samothrace) is a Parian marble sculpture now in the Louvre, Paris, France. It is believed to have been made about 190 BC. It was discovered in 1863. It commemorates Nike, the Greek victory in a sea battle near Samothrace. It stands 2.44 m high. The work presents a pose where violent motion and sudden stillness meet. It is notable for its graceful balance and for the rendering of the figure's draped garments, depicted as if rippling in a strong sea breeze.

Ancient Greek Military World

Wars	Greco-Persian Wars • Peloponnesian War • Trojan War •

Battles	Battle of Artemisium • Battle of Chaeronea • Battle of Corinth • Battle of Leuctra • Battle of Marathon • Battle of Plataea • Battle of Salamis • Battle of Samothrace • Battle of Thermopylae •

Men and Military Life	Alcibiades • Alexander the Great • Greek helmets • Greek shield • Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece • Hoplite • Leonidas I • Macedonian phalanx • Milo of Croton • Pericles • Phalanx formation • Sacred Band of Thebes • Themistocles • Thucydides • Trireme •

Literature	Herodotus • History of the Peloponnesian War • Homer • Iliad • Pericles' Funeral Oration •

Miscellaneous	300 (graphic novel) • The 300 Spartans (movie) • Achilles • Ares (God of War) • Athena (Goddess of War and Military Strategy) • Patroclus • Riace bronzes • Troy (movie) • Winged Victory of Samothrace (sculpture) •

Ancient Greece: Arts and Culture

Sculpture	Artemision Zeus • Charioteer of Delphi • Colossus of Rhodes • Elgin Marbles • Hellenistic art • Hermes and the Infant Dionysos • Phidias • Praxiteles • Riace Warriors • Statue of Zeus at Olympia • Venus de Milo • Winged Victory of Samothrace •

Painting and pottery	Carpenter Painter • Epiktetos • Kleophrades Painter • Kottabos (Kleophrades Painter) • Singing Reveler (Epiktetos) •

Sports and Games	Boxing • Gymnasium • Heraia • Kleomedes of Astypalia • Kottabos • Milo of Croton • Olympic Games • Palaestra • Pankration • Theogenes • Wrestling •

Architecture	Acropolis of Athens • Corinthian order • Doric order • Palaestra at Olympia • Parthenon • Temple of Artemis • Temple of Hera at Olympia • Temple of Zeus at Olympia •

Theater	Aeschylus • Aristophanes • Comedy • Euripides • Greek chorus • Satyr play • Sophocles • Theatre of ancient Greece • Tragedy •

Literature	Aesop • Apollonius of Rhodes • Argonautica • Epic poem • Hesiod • Homer • Iliad • Ode • Odyssey • Pindar • Sappho • Theogony

Places	Athens • Corinth • Delphi • Macedonia • Mount Parnassus • Olympia • Sparta • Thebes

People	Alcibiades • Aristotle • Galen • Herodotus • Hippocrates • Pausanias (geographer) • Pericles • Plato • Plutarch • Socrates • Xenophon

Miscellanea	City-state • Democracy • Greek homosexuality • Greek mythology • Labors of Herakles • Oracle of Delphi • Satyr •

Images for kids

The statue was carefully lowered down a ramp in 1939 when it was removed from the Louvre and Paris for safekeeping.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, side view
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, before restoration
A plaster copy of the Winged Victory in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Daru staircase leading to the statue
The statue after last restoration
The statue on its pedestal
The statue before restoration, standing on a marble block
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, back view

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