The owl of Athena
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appellative Nike became fixed. The rock-goddess had sent forth
her owls, omens of victory, and henceforward these emissaries—the
Nikai of her famous balustrade—must needs be winged, though she
their source and origin remained wingless1.
However that may be, the winged Athena reappears in
1 A t
rtiitJdl ^rra"cotta statuette in the Antiquarium at Munich, referred by Bulle to the
ttee.ste s- v- B.C., represents a winged Nike standing with her left arm supported on a
appareern' Slle holds a pomegranate in her left hand, an oinochoc in her right, being
J93, 3 \ conceived as a handmaid (cp. E. Bernert in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. xvii.
* Wi about t0 offer food and drink t0
some deity, perhaps to Athena Nike (H. Bulle
2 c ler Lex. Myth. iii. 34o with fig. 18 = my fig. 626).
^ P- 785 fig. 580.
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appellative Nike became fixed. The rock-goddess had sent forth
her owls, omens of victory, and henceforward these emissaries—the
Nikai of her famous balustrade—must needs be winged, though she
their source and origin remained wingless1.
However that may be, the winged Athena reappears in
1 A t
rtiitJdl ^rra"cotta statuette in the Antiquarium at Munich, referred by Bulle to the
ttee.ste s- v- B.C., represents a winged Nike standing with her left arm supported on a
appareern' Slle holds a pomegranate in her left hand, an oinochoc in her right, being
J93, 3 \ conceived as a handmaid (cp. E. Bernert in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. xvii.
* Wi about t0 offer food and drink t0
some deity, perhaps to Athena Nike (H. Bulle
2 c ler Lex. Myth. iii. 34o with fig. 18 = my fig. 626).
^ P- 785 fig. 580.
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