This is a cast of the viewer's left side of block o from the south frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis at Athens. The south frieze depicts a battle between Greeks and Persians, ...
At Elis, where the Olympic games were held, Pausanias described an altar to Nike set up next ... who was granted victory in war. The temple of Athena Nike, that is, Athena in her role as the ...