entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_HECATE,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation,Library 1.2.4; daughter of Perses and Asteria; dwells in underworld; companion of Persephone in the abduction myth
ENT_HECATE,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation,"Theogony 411-452: Hecate receives the longest individual praise passage in the Theogony — ""Hecate whom Zeus the son of Cronos honoured above all"" (412); Zeus gave her a share of the honors of earth, sea, and starry sky; she aids those who pray to her in all domains (war, athletics, fishing, herding, judgment, children); daughter of Titan Perses and the Titaness Asteria; Hesiod is the earliest and most complete ancient theological account of Hecate's power; the Chthonic/liminal aspects attested in later sources build on this foundation"
ENT_HECATE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias describes the oldest cult statue of Hecate (by the sculptor Alcamenes; placed near the Propylaea of the Athenian Acropolis; Book 2.30.2); also Hecate at Aegina and Argos; this is the primary ancient source for her earliest cult images
ENT_HECATE,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation,"Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature)."
ENT_HECATE,SRC_THEOI_UNDERWORLD,index attestation,Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.