entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_BACCHUS,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_BACCHUS,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,"DND 2.62; 3.58. Cicero cites multiple versions of Bacchus/Dionysus, noting their theological confusion."
ENT_ROM_BACCHUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 3.713-790: the Liberalia (March 17; festival of Liber/Bacchus); the coming-of-age ceremony where Roman boys put on their toga virilis; Liber/Bacchus as the deity of wine, freedom, and civic coming-of-age; the primary literary account of the Liberalia"
ENT_ROM_BACCHUS,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_BACCHUS,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Bacchus/Liber appears in Aeneid 6.805 (among Rome's divine founders); 7.385-391 (Amata's Bacchic frenzy). The Aeneid attests Bacchus as civic deity as well as god of ecstatic rites.