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This is a reprint of a work originally published in 1937 (George Allen & Unwin, London). Ransome examines how the bee and its honey has been an element of myth, legend, superstition, folklore, and ritual in various cultures from ancient times. She finds representations of the bee from ancient Egypt to the indigenous cultures still extant in the 193
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Format:Paperback
This is a splendid book. I bought it because I was doing a little project on bees in poetry, and it sounded like a good source. Actually there's not much poetry, but so much history, folklore and other information that it didn't matter. The book was originally published in 1937, so it's a pleasure to read; witty, erudite and properly punctuated, so you aren't always tripping over ill-designed sentences. The earliest bees have been discovered preserved in Baltic amber, from the time when humanity barely existed, and cave art shows wild honey being collected in palaeolithic times (there's a fascinating illustration of this). They were known to the Egyptians as 'the tears of Ra (the sun god)', and to the Greeks as little goddesses, under the sway of Melissa. If you love bees, and are worried about the threats facing them in the twenty-first century, read this.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
what a great tool!
15 July 2006
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this book has been of utmost help to me, since I've been working on my degree essay, which concerns the symbol of the bee in the poetry of Pindar, Theocritus and Callimachus.
The information in this book is very very wide as far as time and peoples are concerned.
the perfect tool for a philologist or an anthropologist (even an archaeologist) who is doing research in the relative field.
The information in this book is very very wide as far as time and peoples are concerned.
the perfect tool for a philologist or an anthropologist (even an archaeologist) who is doing research in the relative field.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Love ancient lore?
16 Aug 2008
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This book is chock-full of ancient lore and symbolism, situating the honeybee near or within a wide range of human societies, from the deepest to the recent past. Maybe we are 'co-evolved' -- who knows? First published in 1937, the author already seems to be suggesting the idea that human observation of the bee may have provided early models for complex, layered societies, with specialized occupations and professions. Honey was evidently used in the deep past for medicines and the first known intoxicants, wax for preservation, magic, and metallurgy, and bees have been mentioned in the earliest literature that has survived. Surprisingly early on, beekeeping was a well-established industry. Perhaps the honeybee, like many other symbolically charged animals, is one of the principal "metaphors we live by". Loved this book ...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
History of beekeeping around the world
4 July 2009
Format:Paperback
Looking for more information about honeybees? This paperback book takes a look at the age long history of honey bees and people. I found this book very interesting and informative.
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