entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,"DND 2.64 (Saturn = time in Stoic allegory, from satus/saturation). Documents Stoic allegorization of Saturn."
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation,Saturn's treasury (Aerarium Saturni) at the foot of the Capitol; AUC 2.21.2 (treasury established). Saturnalia festival implicit throughout. Attests Saturn's role as presider over state finance.
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 1.233-254: Saturn's reign in the Golden Age; his arrival in Latium as a wanderer; the Saturnalia aetiologies are discussed in Macrobius (linked to Fasti tradition); Ovid treats Saturn as the archaic deity of the agricultural Golden Age
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ,direct attestation,Varro's Saturn as seed/sowing deity; City of God 7.13. Varro offers the canonical Roman allegorization of Saturn.
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Saturn ruled Latium in the Golden Age (Aeneid 8.319-327: Evander's account); Saturn's Hill = the Capitol; his name gives Saturnia to Juno's cult title. Aeneid 8 is the key text for the Roman Golden Age of Saturn.