This has me stumped and so I am submitting it to the Bee-l and Entomo-L
Discussion list for a possible response.  There was a thread some time back
on famous or prominent persons who were beekeepers.  Sir Edmund Hilary and
Henry Fonda come to mind; Peter Fonda is being nominated for the Academy
Award this year for protraying a beekeeper in Ulee's Gold.  The Roman Pliny
the Elder and some Greek and Roman personages were thought to be
beekeepers; Napolean's emperor's robe had honey bees on it, but I know of
no beekeepers as characters in classical literature or Greek or Roman
mythology.  Perhaps someone else has more information.
 
Tom Sanford
 
 
>Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 13:59:15 -0800
>From: Linda Prior <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: bees in lit
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>I am doing a paper on beekeepers who appear as characters in literature
>(through the ages).  Can you point me in a direction to find a few more
>characters to write about?
>Thanks, Linda Prior, Dept. of Lang. and Lit., Augusta State Univ.
>Augusta, GA 30904-2200
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