Victory
The goddess Victory was advertised as the tutelary of the Roman dictator Sulla. He advertised her by holding public games (ludi) in her honor.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 200 BCE
- Attested period
- -200 – 1990
- Historical notes
- Associated with Sulla in the Republican era.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Fortuna, Magna Mater, Mars Camulus, Penates, Silvanus, Fortuna Conservatrix, Agathe Tyche, Lares Compitales, Dioscuri, Luna, Victories, Victory and Progress, Progress of the State, Hercules, Ariadne, child-Pan, Apollo, Minerva, Jupiter, Aphrodite, Lares, Vesta, Juno, Genius, Goddess, genius loci, satyr, Pan, Silenus, Bacchus
- allied with
- lady Columbia
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Precedents for claiming the personal protection of a deity were established in the Republican era, when for instance the Roman dictator Sulla advertised the goddess Victory as his tutelary by holding public games (ludi) in her honor.”
#9072 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The denarius was revived around 157 BC with the Dioscuri type and a new bigatus depicting Victory in her biga, probably to commemorate Rome's dominance following the Battle of Pydna. Tacitus and Plutarch mention a statue of Victory in a biga.”
#20152 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Victory in her biga was later featured.”
#20165 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Atop Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, lady Columbia, an allegorical representation of the United States, rides in a chariot drawn by two horses. Two winged Victory figures, each leading a horse, trumpet Columbia's arrival.”
#41483 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“crowned by a Victory standing behind him and holding a palm in her left hand”
#45915 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free