PAEONIUS

flourished 450, 400 BC Nike, marble statue by Paeonius, c. 420 BC. In the Archaeological Museum, Greek sculptor, native of Mende in Thrace, a contemporary of the sculptors Phidias and Polyclitus. Paeonius is famous for his statue of the Nike, or Winged Victory (c. 420 BC; Archaeological Museum, Olympia), which was found in Olympia in 1875. An inscription on its pedestal states that the statue commemorated a victory of the Messenians and the Naupactians over an unnamed enemy, probably the Spartans.