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  "summary": "Victory, daughter of Styx and Pallas, who with her siblings Zelus, Cratos and Bia \"dwell always with Zeus\" because Styx brought them first to his side against the Titans. At Athens she was worshipped as Wingless Victory so that she would never leave; at Olympia Zeus holds her in his hand.",
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    "deities",
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    "war"
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      "target": "zeus"
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      "target": "athena"
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      "target": "oceanus"
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    }
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    "Who is Nike?",
    "Who are the parents of Nike?",
    "Why does Nike live with Zeus?",
    "Did Nike fight in the Titanomachy?",
    "What is the Wingless Victory at Athens?",
    "Why does the Zeus of Olympia hold a Nike?"
  ],
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      "id": "c1",
      "text": "\"Styx the daughter of Ocean was joined to Pallas and bore Zelus (Emulation) and trim-ankled Nike (Victory) in the house. Also she brought forth Cratos (Strength) and Bia (Force) … These have no house apart from Zeus … but they dwell always with Zeus the loud-thunderer\" (Theog. 383–388).",
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    },
    {
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      "text": "The reason is the Titan war: when Zeus promised office to whoever fought with him against the Titans, \"deathless Styx came first to Olympus with her children\", and Zeus made her the oath of the gods \"and her children to live with him always\" (Theog. 389–401). Apollodorus agrees — \"to Pallas and Styx were born Victory, Dominion, Emulation, and Violence\", honoured \"because she and her children had fought on his side against the Titans\" (Apollod. 1.2.4–1.2.5).",
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    },
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      "text": "At the entrance to the Acropolis, \"on the right of the gateway is a temple of Wingless Victory\" (Paus. 1.22.4). Pausanias explains the idea beside the fettered Enyalius of Sparta: \"the Athenians think that Victory, having no wings, will always remain where she is\" (Paus. 3.15.7).",
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      "confidence": 0.93
    },
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      "text": "Pheidias's Zeus at Olympia \"in his right hand … carries a Victory, which, like the statue, is of ivory and gold; she wears a ribbon and — on her head — a garland\" (Paus. 5.11.1); at Olympia too the Mantineans set up a Victory beside Athena (Paus. 5.26.6).",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "confidence": 0.92
    }
  ],
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    "Daughter of Styx and Pallas, one of four siblings who live in Zeus's house (Theog. 383–388).",
    "Her place with Zeus is a reward for the Titan war, earned by her mother (Theog. 389–401; Apollod. 1.2.5).",
    "\"Wingless\" at Athens is a wish, not a description — a Victory that cannot fly away (Paus. 3.15.7)."
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      "claim": "c2"
    },
    {
      "q": "Did Nike fight in the Titanomachy?",
      "claim": "c2"
    },
    {
      "q": "What is the Wingless Victory at Athens?",
      "claim": "c3"
    },
    {
      "q": "Why does the Zeus of Olympia hold a Nike?",
      "claim": "c4"
    }
  ],
  "evidence_tier": "primary",
  "evidence": {
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    ]
  },
  "moat_flag": false,
  "winning_edge": "Explains why Victory is Zeus's housemate from the Titanomachy passage itself, and gives Pausanias's own gloss on the Wingless Victory.",
  "confidence": 0.93,
  "last_verified": "2026-09-03",
  "media": [],
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