The Honey-Makers

Half natural history, half literature: how the honey-bee actually works — tongue, wings, sting, swarm — and then three thousand years of what people have believed about her, from the Vedas to mead.

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Bee-Culture at Present: Menzel

Apollo's oldest temple - Pausanias: The Descrip. of Greece, bk. x. 5 Apollo the god of the bees - Menzel: Myth. Forsch.

According to Hawk's Peruv. Antiq., p. 198, "Honey was offered up to the sun by the ancient Peruvians." 269 269 269 270 270 270 " Single out four choice bulls' - Virg. : Geor., iv. 271 272 "Some have alleged " - Ibid.

Democritus promised resurrection - Gubernatis Zoölogical Mythology; Menzel: Myth. Forsch. Alexander buried in honey - Menzel: Myth. Forsch.

Monogr. d. B.

Whiston's Josephus Rev. A. R. Shilleto, xiv. vii. 4 "At once they mixed " - Apoll. Rhod., bk. iv. "To Phrygia's steeps" Eurip.: The Bacchæ "The ivy wands " Ibid. 273 274 273 275 276 "And he set therein " Iliad, xxiii. Lang, Leaf, and Myers Appendix PAGE "Why, then, crown they" - Lucian : Comedies Charon 278 "To whom the prophetess" - Æneid, vi.

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