How Nike Is an Allusion. Today you guys will get to learn about how Nike got started and also how it is an allusion. Do you know what an allusion is? Well i’ll tell you. An allusion is a reference to something like the god in Roman times Mercury to the planet Mercury. So before you get lost i’ll start explaining. In the allusion side of things Nike was a goddess that didn’t really have much Mythology about her there's only one piece. The piece is when Zeus was looking for allies before the titan war and Styx brought her daughters and one of them was Nike the goddess of Victory. So that is pretty much the only piece of Mythology Nike has. The allusion is used in the company Nike because they used the goddess name for the company's name. The
