of Tantalus, according to Pindar, was that he offered to his guests the ambrosia of the Deathless Ones, a theft akin to that of Prometheus, Karl Kerenyi noted (in Heroes of the Greeks). In the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess uses "ambrosial bridal oil that she had ready perfumed." In the story of Eros and Psyche as told by Apuleius, Psyche is given ambrosia upon her completion of the quests set by Aphrodite and her acceptance on Olympus. After she partakes, she and Eros are wed as gods. In the Aeneid, Aeneas encounters his mother in an alternate, or illusory form. When she became her godly form "Her hair's ambrosia breathed a holy fragrance." Ambrosia (nymph) Lycurgus, king of Thrace, forbade the cult of Dionysus, whom he drove from Thrace, and attacked the gods' entourage when they celebrated the god. Among them was Ambrosia, who turned herself into a grapevine to hide from his wrath. Dionysus, enraged by the king's actions, drove him mad. In his fit of insanity he killed his son, whom he mistook for a stock of ivy, and then himself. In popular culture In The Sims 3 and 4, ambrosia is a special meal that can resurrect the ghosts of dead Sims or reset living Sims to the beginning of their current life stage. In the manga series Record of Ragnarok, the Ambrosia is referred to as the blood of Zeus. The mortal Alcides ends up drinking the Ambrosia and after surviving it, gains immortality and a position as a demi-God. He is adopted by Zeus and Hera and in turn his name is changed to Heracles. In the original Battlestar Galactica ambrosia is the name of an alcoholic drink prized in the Twelve Colonies for becoming more and more exquisite with extreme aging. In the episode "The Long Patrol" caches of centuries-old ambrosia are considered a priceless treasure. See also Elixir of life, a potion sought by alchemy to produce immortality Ichor, blood of the Greek gods, related to ambrosia Iðunn's apples in Norse mythology Manna, food given by God to the Israelites Peaches of Immortality in Chinese mythology Pill of Immortality Silphium Soma (drink), a ritual drink of importance among the early Vedic peoples and Indo-Iranians. References Sources Clay, Jenny Strauss, "Immortal and ageless forever", The Classical Journal 77.2 (December 1981:pp. 112–117). Ruck, Carl A.P. and Danny Staples, The World of Classical Myth