entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_GENIUS,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_GENIUS,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,DND 2.45 (genius as the divine creative force in every individual; Stoic treatment). Primary philosophical source for the Roman genius concept.
ENT_ROM_GENIUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti throughout: the Genius of the paterfamilias is referenced in Roman cult practice; the Genius Augusti (August's divine spirit) is a political-religious figure Ovid navigates carefully; the Genius is the divine life-force of a person or place in Roman religion
ENT_ROM_GENIUS,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_GENIUS,SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ,direct attestation,Varro's taxonomy places Genius in the category of di selecti (chosen gods); City of God 7.13; the fullest ancient account of the genius system.
ENT_ROM_GENIUS,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Genius of the place (genius loci); Aeneid 7.136 (genius of the River Tiber); 8.62-65 (Tiber appears as the genius of the river). Roman genius theology implicit throughout.