Ambrosia (daughter of Atlas)

Ambrosia ( Greek  Ἀμβροσία ), daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione , is a person of Greek mythology .

She was one of the Hyades , a dodonäische nymph and nurse of the wine god Dionysus . When the Thracian king Lycurgus pursued Dionysus and his companions, she was turned into a vine.

literature

• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Ambrosia 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 282 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Konrad Wernicke : Ambrosia 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, column 1809.