entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,"DND 2.67 (Ceres as grain, from gerere); Cicero gives the Stoic etymology Ceres < gero."
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation,Temple of Ceres (Aventine triad Ceres-Liber-Libera) dedicated 493 BCE; AUC 2.41.8. Key source for the Aventine plebeian triad and Ceres's role in grain supply.
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 4.393-620: the Cerealia (April 12-19); Ovid narrates the Rape of Proserpina in the Roman version (Ceres searches for her daughter; the institution of her cult); the primary Latin literary account of the Ceres/Proserpina myth
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Ceres invoked at Aeneid 4.58-59 (Dido's wedding rites); 6.479 (underworld context). Grain goddess role attested in ritual contexts throughout.