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Ambrosia

Objects · Myth & story · Nature

The food of the Greek gods in poetic speech. Later “ambrosial” perfume talk is reception; nectar as drink stays an alias here, not a second table.

Also known as nectar

Hellenic religion

  • Ambrosia appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad uses ambrosia as the gods’ food and as anointing stuff on the bodies of gods and the dead. Homeric divine fare, not a later perfume slogan.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.