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Bees in Antiquity Part Two: Greece and Rome

Bees in Greek myth. As we have seen in the previous article, apiculture had become a sophisticated industry by the time Homer was composing epithets and gruesome deaths. The Mediterranean and its trade routes facilitated an easy exchange of ideas and technologies. One civilisation, the Minoan  may well have passed on technologies or offered alternatives

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