entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,DND 2.67 (Janus = ianus/doorway; Cicero's systematic analysis of Janus as a uniquely Roman deity without Greek parallel).
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation,AUC 1.19.2-4 (Numa Pompilius institutes opening/closing of Janus's gates to signify peace or war); this is the primary prose source for the ritual of the Janus gates.
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 1.89-294: Janus is Ovid's primary subject for January; the god speaks at length about his two-faced nature, his guardianship of gates and beginnings, and his role as the first deity of any invocation; the most extensive literary account of Janus's theology"
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ,direct attestation,Varro devotes special analysis to Janus (City of God 7.9); notes that Janus is uniquely Roman with no Greek equivalent and represents beginnings/doorways. Key source for Janus theology.
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Janus appears at 7.179-182 (palace of Latinus has statue of Janus) and 7.607-615 (the gates of Janus opened to declare war). Virgil is our primary literary source for the ritual function of the Janus gates.