Ambrosia - Lycurgos of Thrace and Ambrosia

Lycurgos of Thrace and Ambrosia

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Lycurgus of Thrace, an antagonist of Dionysus, forbade the cult of Dionysus, whom he drove from Thrace, and was driven mad by the god. In his fit of insanity he killed his son, whom he mistook for a stock of mature ivy, and Ambrosia, who was transformed into the grapevine.

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    “Someone who instinctively nourishes himself on ambrosia alone, who leaves behind what is indigestible in things.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)