entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation,"Library 1.3.2, 1.4.1-2; birth on Delos; slaying of Python; his loves and offspring"
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation,"Theogony 918-920: Apollo and Artemis are born of Zeus and the Titaness Leto; ""Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis who delights in arrows"" — Hesiod provides the genealogical basis; the Homeric Hymns to Apollo (separately linked) give the full birth narrative at Delos; Hesiod's Theogony is the primary genealogical placement"
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 3 (To Apollo): one of the longest Homeric Hymns, in two parts; the Delian section narrates his birth on Delos from Leto; the Pythian section narrates his establishment of the oracle at Delphi and his slaying of the Python; the primary primary source for Apollo's cult foundations"
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation,"Apollo sends the plague that opens the Iliad (I.8-53); he is the divine protector of Troy; he kills Achilles with Paris as his instrument (implied Il. XXII); Iliad I, IV, V, VII, XV-XVI, XXII, XXIV"
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias visits and describes the sanctuary at Delphi in detail (Book 10): the Temple of Apollo, the Oracle, the Omphalos, the treasuries of the Greek cities, and the paintings of Polygnotus; also Apollo at Corinth (Book 2) and Apollo Epikourios at Bassae (Book 8)"
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation,Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation,"Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature)."