Victoria

The Roman goddess Victoria was the Roman equivalent of the Greek Nike, the goddess of victory. Victoria was one of the "concept goddesses" (like Virtus, Honos, and Fides) whose cults first appeared in Rome in the fourth and third centuries B.C. The cult of Victory in particular dates back to 294 B.C., when the consul L. Postumius Megellus built a temple to the goddess on the Palatine. The goddess came to have other shrines and temples in Rome. The first-century B.C. Roman antiquarian Varro equated the Roman Victoria to the Sabine goddess Vacuna.