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
Magicians of the Gods Magicians of the Gods Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation is a 2015 book by British pseudoarchaeology writer Graham Hancock. It is published by Thomas Dunne Books in the United States and Coronet in the United Kingdom. An "updated and expanded" paperback edition was released in 2017. A sequel to Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods" (1995), the book is based on the premise that there was a highly advanced "lost civilisation" in prehistory that was destroyed in a global catastrophe. In "Magicians of the Gods", Hancock seeks an explanation for this catastrophe in the controversial