entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_VENUS,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_VENUS,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,DND 2.69 (Venus as desire/generation in Stoic allegory); 3.62 (Academic critique of Venus myths). Systematic philosophical treatment.
ENT_ROM_VENUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 4.1-18, 4.61-244: April is sacred to Venus; Ovid addresses her and narrates the festivals of Veneralia and Vinalia; the origin of April from aperire (to open) is connected to her power; her role as mother of Aeneas and ancestor of the Julian family"
ENT_ROM_VENUS,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_VENUS,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Venus is Aeneas's divine mother and protector; appears in Aeneid 1.314-409 (disguised as huntress); 2.589-623 (reveals the gods destroying Troy); 8.370-416 (commissions Vulcan to forge Aeneas's armor). Central to the Aeneid's Julii family theology.