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The eminent statesman from Athens, Solon (640-558 BC.) has adopted various legislative measures for bee-keeping in his time.
Beekeeping was particularly widespread in the Greek province of Attica. In this area, the keeping of bees and honey extraction
formed a main branch of agriculture. Solon felt compelled to write a law. In a Regulation on beekeeping, he demanded a distance
of at least 300 feet for each beehives in order to avoid disputes between the individual breeders.
In ancient Greece, organized major beekeeping was operated, which had for objectives to produce the divine dining, the honey.
The intellectuals of that time knew the beneficial properties of natural honey very well.
The father of medicine, Hippocrates (462-352 BC.) recommended all people to eat honey, but especially its patients and all patients.
For Pythagoras and his followers honey was regarded as their main food. Beekeeping existed not only in Attica but in almost the whole
of Greece, on the mainland and the island colonies.
sources:
The bee in ancient times (DE)
melissokipos (GR)
Meli Malisiova
apiculture | agriculture
