entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_MINERVA,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_MINERVA,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,DND 2.22 (Minerva/Athena's birth from Jupiter's head); 3.59 (Academic). Documents the Roman reception of Greek Athena mythology.
ENT_ROM_MINERVA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 3.809-848: the Quinquatrus (March 19-23) as Minerva's principal festival; Ovid narrates the origin of the festival and the ritual contests of gladiators; Minerva as patroness of crafts, arts, and learning; the second most important Capitoline deity after Jupiter"
ENT_ROM_MINERVA,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_MINERVA,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Minerva's wrath for the desecration of her temple during the sack of Troy pervades the Aeneid (2.615; 11.483); she favors the Greeks and opposes Aeneas. Aeneid 2.615 confirms her role as destroyer of Troy.