Niche (Greek: Νίκη， "Victory"; Transliteration of Latin letters: Nike) is the goddess of victory in Greek mythology [1]. Her counterpart in Roman mythology is Victoria.

According to Hesiod's Divine Manual, she is the daughter of the Titan gods Pallas and Styx, and the sister of Kratos (strength), Bias (strength) and Zelos (enthusiasm). They are all companions of the main god Zeus. Although born in the Titan race, she stood on the side of Olympus in the Titan War and brought them victory.
Her classic image is that she has a pair of wings, a healthy body, and elegant clothes, like wandering down from the sky. Her plump body reveals strength and health under her thin shirt, showing victory and the joy that comes with it. When she was the slave god of Zeus and Athena, she had no wings. Later, when she became the goddess of victory independently, she added two wings. In the traditional description, Nick often has wings and has amazing speed, but he does not have any other special strength.
As the name implies, the goddess of victory is the embodiment of victory, and victory follows wherever she goes. She holds a palm strip in one hand and an olive ring in the other. She will always hover around the winners in the competition. She not only symbolizes the victory of the war, but also represents the success in many fields of Greek daily life, especially in the field of competitive sports. Therefore, she is regarded as a god who brings good luck and is often the object of artistic works. In her works of art, she is usually assimilated to other gods. For example, sculptors in ancient Greece usually portrayed her as a petite figure with wings, perched on the arm of another god, or peeped out from the clothes of companion gods, or flew high in the sky like a fairy.
In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the positive side of the medal was the goddess of victory.
In her most famous portraits, such as the Victory de Samothrace in the Louvre, she is shown as a naked or armored winged goddess. On Greek pottery, she is depicted as standing, flying or striding, sometimes pouring wine on the altar. Her accessories are usually garlands, jars, vases and incense burners. In the Greek colonies in western Italy, she usually appears as a chariot rider. In other places, she holds weapons or trophies, or plays lyre (ancient Greek harp, with five to seven strings) or flute.
Niche and Athena are often worshipped together, because they were closely related after Greece defeated Persia in the Marathon Campaign 490 years ago. The giant statue of Athena enshrined in the Parthenon Temple in Athens is also believed to depict Buddhist sculpture, and the Parthenon complex also contains a temple dedicated to Buddhist sculpture in Athens. Sometimes, Athena is depicted as an image with the appendages of Niche. According to the records of Pausanias, Athenian Niche was shown as an image without wings. Perhaps people hoped that this would prevent Victory from leaving the city. The temple also left an image of the god: Nike Slancio, who untied the shoelaces. It was once located on the parapet of the temple, and is now in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.