“Nike,” marble statue by Paeonius, c. 420 bc. In the Archaeological Museum, Olympia, Greece. Height 2.16 m.Scala/Art Resource, New York

Paeonius,  (flourished 450–400 bc), 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.