entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_VULCAN,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_VULCAN,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,DND 2.67 (Vulcan = fire/forge in Stoic allegory). Documents allegorical Roman theology.
ENT_ROM_VULCAN,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 3.831 (Quinquatrus): Vulcan as the divine craftsman associated with fire and metallurgy; the Volcanalia (August 23, outside the surviving six books) is the primary Roman fire festival; Vulcan's role as the forge-deity contrasted with his Greek counterpart Hephaestus's lame-craftsman mythology"
ENT_ROM_VULCAN,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_VULCAN,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,"Vulcan forges the Shield of Aeneas (Aeneid 8.370-625, the ekphrasis of Roman history on the shield). One of the most elaborate descriptions of Vulcan/Hephaestus as divine smith in any ancient text."