In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia (Greek: ἀμβÃÂÃŽÂ¿ÃÆ’ία) is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods, often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumes it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves (Odyssey xii.62), so may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth.