entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_DIONYSUS,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation,"Library 3.4.3, 3.5.1-3; twice-born from Zeus and Semele; wanderings; driven mad by Hera; conquest of India; introduction of the vine"
ENT_DIONYSUS,SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES,direct attestation,"Histories 2.49, 2.144, 2.156: Herodotus traces Dionysus's origins to Egypt (= Osiris) and claims Melampus introduced the Dionysiac rites to Greece from Egypt; he also names Dionysus as much more ancient than Greek genealogy allows; a critical early text for Dionysus's oriental connections"
ENT_DIONYSUS,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation,"Theogony 940-942: Dionysus is born of Zeus and the mortal Semele; Zeus took the premature infant from Semele's womb after her death and sewed him into his thigh to complete the gestation — ""golden-haired Dionysus""; Hesiod is the primary genealogical source for Dionysus as a son of Zeus and a mortal woman, establishing the foundation for his mixed divine-mortal nature"
ENT_DIONYSUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,"HH 1 (To Dionysus, fragmentary), HH 7 (To Dionysus: the pirates hymn), HH 26 (To Dionysus): HH 7 narrates how pirates capture a young Dionysus and he transforms the ship into a vessel of vines, turns himself into a lion, and the pirates leap overboard becoming dolphins; primary source for the Dionysus-pirates myth"
ENT_DIONYSUS,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation,"Dionysus is mentioned in the Iliad (VI.130-140: the Lycurgus story, where Dionysus flees in terror and Thetis protects him; XIV.325: in the catalogue of Zeus's loves); he does not play a major narrative role but his Homeric attestation is important evidence for his early presence in the Greek pantheon"
ENT_DIONYSUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias documents Dionysiac cult throughout Greece: his tomb at Delphi (Book 10.24.6), the Lenaia festival at Athens, the cult at Sicyon (Book 2.7.5-6), and the Dionysus Lysios sanctuary at Corinth (Book 2.2.5)"
ENT_DIONYSUS,SRC_THEOI_AGRICULTURE,index attestation,Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.
ENT_DIONYSUS,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation,"Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature)."