ABSTRACT
About 700 BC, Homer recorded the plasticity of beeswax in Book XII of the Odyssey: Odysseus (Ulysses) King of Ithaca used it to ensure that his sailors would be deaf to the song of the Sirens on an island near the Italian coast.
About 700 BC, Homer recorded the plasticity of beeswax in Book XII of the Odyssey: Odysseus (Ulysses) King of Ithaca used it to ensure that his sailors would be deaf to the song of the Sirens on an island near the Italian coast.