Dance to the Greek Music, chow down on the Greek food, and enjoy some very scrumptious desserts that are also very Greek. You're getting the point. Expect a full-fledged authentic Greek event. Nothing can beat the sights you'll take in, the smells filling the air, and all the fun....
The Horai (Horae) were regarded as goddesses of immortality: they guarded the gates of heaven, admitting only gods; were present as midwives and nurses of the gods; and delivered ambrosia, the food of the gods.I. AMBROSIA, THE FOOD OF THE GODSQuintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 4. 128 ff...
"Mnesitheus [a Greek physician] said that the gods had revealed wine to mortals, to be the greatest blessing for those who use it aright, but for those who use it without measure, the reverse. For it gives food to them that take it, and strength in mind and body. In medicine it...
We moved onto our entrees and selected a lighter red and a fuller red, both Greek and both new to me, and we had one of those wake-up moments. The wines were great, and not just because of the greek food. The wines themselves were very, very good. I filed this experience away, ...
I began to simply agree with Abraham: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which do not exist as though they did, has the power to do that which He promised.(24) This became my food for thought – and my weapon of warfare every time the waves of fear and hurt...
And with these words the goddess drew up a table by him, heaping it with ambrosia and mixing the rosy nectar. So Hermes began to eat and drink; when the meal was over and his spirit refreshed with food, he answered Kalypso thus : ‘At my entrance you put a question to me, goddess...
For disposition of participants through the trial, exclusion criteria were: BMI < 18 or >35 kg/m2; high blood pressure (defined as systolic >159 mmHg or diastolic >99 mmHg); smoking; food allergies or insensitivities; pregnancy; breast feeding; currently taking any medication (use of ...
Hesiod's Prometheus shows that sacrifice was established at the moment when gods and humans ceased to eat together, the moment, that is, when face-to-face communication ended. A new social order goes hand-in-hand with a new approach to food and animals, and sacrifice becomes an imperfect ...