Beware the Evil Eye (Volume 2): The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World: Greece and Rome

by John H. Elliott and J.H. Elliott

Book Overview

In Volume 2 of Beware the Evil Eye, John H. Elliott addresses the most extensive sources of Evil Eye belief in antiquity: the cultures of Greece and Rome. In this period, features of the belief found in Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources are expanded to the point where an Evil Eye belief complex becomes apparent. This complex of features associated with the Evil Eye - human eye as key organ of information, eye as active not passive, eye as channel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0227176138
• ISBN13: 9780227176139
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: James Clarke Company
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"