You should be able to get a list of such plants from a local nursery. Keep in mind that bees are normally harmless. They will not sting unless provoked. Unless you are allergic to bee venom, their sting is minor and has been used to cure various ailments including arthritis. If what we learn from the past is incorrect, evil, stupid or just bad, society suffers.
Society shapes history when new thought emerges.
New thought is continually emerging in the fields of technology. It is this arena which has brought the most advances to humankind. One premise concerns the extent of technological development that people have been able to achieve versus the understanding of human behavior that we have been able to achieve. The natural conclusion is that the people who first put us on the technological trail were correct in their beginning assumptions, while those who started our behavioral studies were wrong in their initial premises. Thus the history of an ancient Greek society has continuing effects on our society today.