entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note ENT_ACHILLES,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation,Library 3.13.8; Epitome 3-5; birth from Thetis and Peleus; early life; Trojan War career ENT_ACHILLES,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation,"Achilles is the central hero of the Iliad; his rage (mēnis) is the poem's first word and its subject; he is the son of Peleus and the Nereid Thetis; his divine parentage, his heel, his armor, his friendship with Patroclus, and his death at Paris's hands (aided by Apollo) are all Homeric; Iliad I-XXIV" ENT_ACHILLES,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias documents the hero cult of Achilles: his tomb at Sigeum in the Troad (referenced); cult at Elis (Book 6.23.3); the island of Leuke (White Island) in the Black Sea as his afterlife; his hero shrine at Sparta ENT_ACHILLES,SRC_THEOI_DEIFIED,index attestation,Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity. ENT_ACHILLES,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation,"Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature)."