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| [[File:Eye-cup Staatliche Antikensammlungen 589.jpg|thumb|right|Kylix eye cup (530–520 BC), inscribed with Chalcidian text. It features an eye motif, likely to ward off the evil eye.]] | [[File:Eye-cup Staatliche Antikensammlungen 589.jpg|thumb|right|Kylix eye cup (530–520 BC), inscribed with Chalcidian text. It features an eye motif, likely to ward off the evil eye.]] |
| Classical authors attempted both to describe and to explain the function of the evil eye. [[Plutarch]] in his work entitled ''Symposium'' has a separate chapter describing such beliefs.<ref name="A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities"/> In his scientific explanation he stated that the eyes were the chief, if not sole, source of the deadly rays that were supposed to spring up like poisoned darts from the inner recesses of a person possessing the evil eye. Plutarch treated the phenomenon of the evil eye as something seemingly inexplicable that is a source of wonder and cause of incredulity.{{efn|Plutarch, ''[[Moralia]]'', Book VII}} Pliny the Elder described the ability of certain African enchanters to have the "power of fascination with the eyes and can even kill those on whom they fix their gaze".{{efn|Pliny the Elder, ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'', VII.2}} | Classical authors attempted both to describe and to explain the function of the evil eye. [[Plutarch]] in his work entitled ''Symposium'' has a separate chapter describing such beliefs.<ref name="A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities"/> In his scientific explanation, he stated that the eyes were the chief, if not sole, source of the deadly rays that were supposed to spring up like poisoned darts from the inner recesses of a person possessing the evil eye. Plutarch treated the phenomenon of the evil eye as something seemingly inexplicable that is a source of wonder and cause of incredulity.{{efn|Plutarch, ''[[Moralia]]'', Book VII}} Pliny the Elder described the ability of certain African enchanters to have the "power of fascination with the eyes and can even kill those on whom they fix their gaze".{{efn|Pliny the Elder, ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'', VII.2}} |
| The idea of the evil eye appears in the poetry of [[Virgil]] in a conversation between the shepherds Menalcas and Damoetas.{{efn|Virgil, ''[[Eclogues]]'', III.1.103}} In the passage, Menalcas is lamenting the poor health of his stock: "What eye is it that has fascinated my tender lambs?". The Christian Gospels record the fact that Jesus warned against the evil eye in a list of evils although it is often called by another name when translated from the [[Koine Greek]] of the New Testament (Mark 7:22).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mark 7 Greek interlinear, parsed and per word translation, free online |url=https://www.abarim-publications.com/Interlinear-New-Testament/Mark/Mark-7-parsed.html |access-date=2023-04-11 |website=Abarim Publications |language=en}}</ref> | The idea of the evil eye appears in the poetry of [[Virgil]] in a conversation between the shepherds Menalcas and Damoetas.{{efn|Virgil, ''[[Eclogues]]'', III.1.103}} In the passage, Menalcas is lamenting the poor health of his stock: "What eye is it that has fascinated my tender lambs?". The Christian Gospels record the fact that Jesus warned against the evil eye in a list of evils although it is often called by another name when translated from the [[Koine Greek]] of the New Testament (Mark 7:22).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mark 7 Greek interlinear, parsed and per word translation, free online |url=https://www.abarim-publications.com/Interlinear-New-Testament/Mark/Mark-7-parsed.html |access-date=2023-04-11 |website=Abarim Publications |language=en}}</ref> |
Okumaya devam et...