Ambrosia in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods; it was with ambrosia Hera "cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away, and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her. On the other hand, in Alcman, nectar is the food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides, ambrosia is the drink. A character in Aristophanes' "Knights" says, "I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your
The Assembly of Gods the conventional motifs is interesting and insightful. In 1897, Frederick Klaeber wrote a review of Triggs’ book which is generally positive with regard to Dr. Triggs and negative with regard to the merits of the poem. He briefly discusses some formal elements of the poem. Albert Rudolph wrote a short work in 1909 that compares the style of "The Assembly of Gods" with that of works by Lydgate and argues that Lydgate was not the author of "The Assembly of Gods". In "The Allegory of Love" (1936) C. S. Lewis briefly describes "The Assembly of Gods" as “a psychomachia with