About the industriousness of bees and the benefits of honey, it has been mentioned in the Bible, where the Promised Land is the one that flows with milk and honey.
At Lóleo Eventos, Ancient Greece, honey was given a divine character, the priestesses of Eleusis were called mellisa, bees, and their school was the hive. Divine origin was also attributed to the hives that were created by the shepherd Aristaeus, son of Apollo and the nymph Cyrene. Others said that Dionysus was the first to lock up the bees.
In the Minoan civilization 1.500 years BC, they drank wine with honey.
Aristotle In his Natural History, he has stories about the life of bees, he implies that he used hives with movable frames, those are the first accounts of hives with movable combs.
Hippocrates considered honey as a fortifying medication that lengthened life. In the period between 800 to 300 BC the Greeks dined on abundant food cooked in sauces or honey.
Jacques Spon in the seventeenth century, on his trip to Greece, found the hives in a basket of straw fabrics, first they had their mouths down, then they placed their mouths up, covering it with wood, each strip measured less than 4 cm, they were somewhat convex on the bottom side, thus adhering the bees the combs along the slats. This technique spread to other countries and reached England, learning that the Greeks took out half the combs in spring and formed another hive. Beekeepers Greeks had created a hive of moving pictures that were manageable.
Beekeeping Modern could have started 150 years ago.
Today the Greeks are consuming a lot of yogurt with honey, which is delicious. It is believed that Alexander the Great after his death in Babylon was brought to Macedonia in a container with honey, and his body arrived perfectly preserved.