Ambrosia Ambrosia In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia (, ) is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods, often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves. "Ambrosia" is sometimes depicted in ancient art as distributed by a nymph labeled with that name. In the myth of Lycurgus, an opponent to the wine god Dionysus, violence committed against Ambrosia turns her into a grapevine. Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods' other form of sustenance, "nectar". The two terms may not have originally been distinguished; though
The Food of the Gods (film) The Food of the Gods (film) The Food of the Gods is a 1976 science fiction thriller film released by American International Pictures and was written, produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon. "The Food of the Gods" starred Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, John McLiam, and Ida Lupino. This film was loosely based on a portion of the H. G. Wells novel "The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth". Michael Medved gave it the Golden Turkey Award for "Worst Rodent Movie of All Time". The film reduced Wells' tale to an "Ecology