What did Greek Gods eat?

Question

what did greek gods like hades and ect eat?

Answer 1

two... dishes: ambrosia and nectar

In ancient Greek mythology, Ambrosia (Ancient Greek: ἀμβροσία) is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods, often depicted as conferring immortality on whomever consumes it.

Nectar is derived from Latin nectar "drink of the gods," which in turn has its origins in the Greek word nektar, a compound of the prefix nek- "death" and suffix -tar "overcoming." - a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants.

Answer 2

In ancient Greek mythology, Ambrosia (Ancient Greek: ἀμβροσία) is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods, often depicted as conferring immortality on whomever consumes it.

Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods' other form of sustenance, nectar. The two terms may not have originally been distinguished, though in Homer's poems and later works, nectar is the drink and ambrosia the food. On the other hand, in Alcman, nectar is the food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides, ambrosia is the drink. Both are fragrant, and may be used as perfume.

The word has generally been derived from Greek a- ("not") and mbrotos ("mortal"); hence the food or drink of the immortals.

The classical scholar Arthur Woollgar Verrall, however, denied that there is any clear example in which the word ambrosios necessarily means immortal, and preferred to explain it as "fragrant," a sense which is always suitable. If so, the word may be derived from the Semitic MBR ("amber", which when burned is resinously fragrant; compare "ambergris") to which Eastern nations attribute miraculous properties. In Europe, honey-colored amber, sometimes far from its natural source, was already a grave gift in Neolithic times and was still worn in the 7th century CE as a talisman by druidic Frisians, though St. Eligius warned "No woman should presume to hang amber from her neck."

W. H. Roscher thinks that both nectar and ambrosia were kinds of honey, in which case their power of conferring immortality would be due to the supposed healing and cleansing power of honey, which is in fact aseptic, and because fermented honey (mead) preceded wine as an entheogen in the Aegean world: the Great Goddess of Crete on some Minoan seals had a bee face: compare Merope and Melissa.

Additionally, some modern scholars, such as Danny Staples, relate ambrosia to the hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria.

Answer 3

Food Of The Greek Gods

Answer 4

Greek Gods ate Ambrosia and drank Necter.

Answer 5

I think the gods of the heavens/earth ate things such as honey,pomegranate and nectar. I think the gods of the underworld like Hades also ate fruit but ones that were different.Also, they drank a lot of wine.

Answer 6

They were drinking nectar and eating ambrosia

Answer 7

Ambrosia. That's why it's called "The Food of the Gods".

Answer 8

Ambrosia -- Nectar was a liquid and therefore drank, not eaten.

Answer 9

They ate ambrosia and drank nectar. I see some people got it wrong.

Answer 10

Ambrosia and nectar (not sure which is food and which is drink, though).