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Updated: June 18, 2025
'I would rather that the Nike of Samothrace should think dreadful things of me than that she should not think of me at all! 'Do I still remind you of her? asked Margaret. 'Yes. I used to be quite satisfied with my Venus, but now I want the Victory from the Louvre. It's not a mere resemblance. She is you, and as she has no face I see yours when I look at her.
She had that same dignity of movement from the hips which the Niké of Samothrace seems to be advancing with as you come up the steps of the Louvre. How tall she had grown! She must be at least five feet nine or ten. But why would she not speak? He overawed her here in the daylight, and she felt silent and oppressed.
Not only her hand, her gaze and her every feature awarded the prize to the man at her feet. There was no doubt that, if Nike herself came to the earth to make the best man happy with the noblest of crowns, the spectacle would be a similar one. And Hermon! No garlanded victor could look up to the gracious divinity more joyously, more completely enthralled by grateful rapture.
"Hush!" said the girl softly, stretching her slender neck toward the illuminated square, for the performer had remained standing upon the pedestal, and Chrysilla, Daphne's companion, sat erect on her couch, exclaiming, "If it is agreeable to you, beautiful Althea, show us Nike crowning the victor."
So he let his somewhat mocking glance wander from Althea to Hermon, and called to the latter: "My congratulations, young master; but I need scarcely remind you that Nike suffers no one not even goodness and grace personified to take from her hand what it is her sole duty to bestow."
In the Scales, one holds the cross high in the air while the other is weighed down by Apollo's laurel-wreath and the bolts of Zeus; in short, our standard displays everything that is most dear to the soul of a Greek or that fills him with devotion. Above all, Nike hovers with the crown of victory.
Nay, I accuse the noble Althea of withholding from Nike, in her personation, her special ornament her swift, powerful wings." "She gave those to Eros, to speed his flight," laughed Proclus, casting a meaning look at Althea and Hermon.
So deeply are they ingrained here that if the Mother of God had not existed, the group would have been deemed incomplete; a family without a mother is to them like a tree without roots a thing which cannot be. The Creator of all things and the Holy Ghost have evaporated; they are too intangible and non-human. But She never became a true cosmopolitan Nike, save in literature.
By the light of the one lamp, which was screened from the bed, one saw dimly the fantastic shapes in the glass cases which lined the walls the little Tanagra figures with their sun-hats and flowing dress bronzes of Apollo or Hermes a bronze bull an ibex a cup wreathed with acanthus. And in the shadow at the far end rose the great Nikê.
But the Nikê was too big and heavy to be moved, and Elizabeth remembered that Desmond had always admired 'the jolly old thing' with its eager outstretched wings and splendid brow. Doctor Renshaw shook his head over the library as a hospital ward, and ordered a vast amount of meticulous cleaning and disinfection. 'No hope? he said, frowning. 'How do we know?
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