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 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