entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ITA_CARMENTA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 1.461-586: Carmentalia, Carmenta's role in childbirth, the Arcadian migration, and Evander."
ENT_ITA_FAUNUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 2.267-380: Faunus and the Lupercalia festival; 2.193-474; 5.99-102.
ENT_ITA_FLORA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 5.183-378: Floralia, the Chloris/Flora narrative, and Flora's claims to mythological agency (Mars, Hyacinthus)."
ENT_ITA_OPS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 6.303-304 (Opalia); Macrobius Saturnalia 1.10.19-20 (Ops and Consus).
ENT_ITA_PICUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 3.37-54: Picus as Picus Martius (woodpecker sacred to Mars).
ENT_ROM_ANNA_PERENNA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Attested in Ovid's Fasti (festival calendar).
ENT_ROM_APOLLO,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 3.881 (Agonalia): Apollo referenced in the Roman calendar; the Ludi Apollinares (July, outside the surviving six books); Ovid treats Apollo as the preserver of the Roman state who deflected plague; his role in the Julian-Augustan ideology"
ENT_ROM_BACCHUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 3.713-790: the Liberalia (March 17; festival of Liber/Bacchus); the coming-of-age ceremony where Roman boys put on their toga virilis; Liber/Bacchus as the deity of wine, freedom, and civic coming-of-age; the primary literary account of the Liberalia"
ENT_ROM_CARNA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Attested in Ovid's Fasti (festival calendar).
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 4.393-620: the Cerealia (April 12-19); Ovid narrates the Rape of Proserpina in the Roman version (Ceres searches for her daughter; the institution of her cult); the primary Latin literary account of the Ceres/Proserpina myth
ENT_ROM_CONCORDIA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Ovid, Fasti 1.637-650; 3.881-882: the temple of Concordia in the Forum."
ENT_ROM_DIANA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 2.155-192 (Lupercalia passage), 3.263-274: Diana's rites on the Ides of March; her grove at Aricia (Nemi) referenced; her role as goddess of wild places and the moon; Fasti 3.263-274 describes the founding of her Arician cult"
ENT_ROM_FORTUNA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Ovid, Fasti 6.569-636: the temple and rites of Fortuna (Fors Fortuna)."
ENT_ROM_GENIUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti throughout: the Genius of the paterfamilias is referenced in Roman cult practice; the Genius Augusti (August's divine spirit) is a political-religious figure Ovid navigates carefully; the Genius is the divine life-force of a person or place in Roman religion
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_JUNO,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 6.15-182: June is sacred to Juno; she speaks in the poem; the Matronalia (March 1 in a different book) and June festivals; her role as queen of heaven and protector of Roman matrons; the Junonian calendar of June
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti throughout: Jupiter is invoked and addressed in multiple calendar entries; his Ides (the 13th of each month are sacred to him); the Vinalia, Agonalia, and other festivals connected to Jupiter; his role as sky-father and state deity"
ENT_ROM_LARES,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 2.599-616: the Fornacalia and Compitalia; the Lares Compitales (Lares of the crossroads) and the household Lares; Ovid explains the origin of the Lares and their role protecting the home and the crossroads; a key text for Roman domestic religion
ENT_ROM_MANES,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 2.533-616: the Parentalia (February 13-21) — the feast of the dead when the Manes (ancestral spirits) are propitiated; Ovid describes the ritual: cold offerings at the tomb, violets, and wine; the Feralia (February 21) closes the festival; primary literary account of Roman ancestor cult"
ENT_ROM_MARS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 2.857-862, 3.1-166: February Lupercalia involves Mars; March is his month; Ovid narrates his origin, his rape of Silvia (mother of Romulus and Remus), and the rites of the Salii; primary literary account of the Roman Mars's cult mythology"
ENT_ROM_MERCURY,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 5.663-692: the Mercuralia (May 15); Mercury's origin as son of Maia (May's eponymous figure); his role as god of merchants and travellers; the ritual sprinkling of his waters at the Porta Capena fountain
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_NEPTUNE,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 1.693-696: the Neptunalia is listed (July, not in the surviving six books, but Neptune is referenced); Ovid mentions Neptune in the context of sea power and his role alongside Jupiter and Pluto as the three cosmic rulers"
ENT_ROM_PALES,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Attested in Ovid's Fasti (festival calendar).
ENT_ROM_PAX,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Ovid, Fasti 1.709-722: Pax and the Ara Pacis Augustae."
ENT_ROM_PENATES,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 6.454: Vesta and the Penates are explicitly linked; Ovid treats the Penates as the guardian deities of the Roman state's inner sanctuary (the Atrium Vestae) as well as household gods brought from Troy by Aeneas; primary literary source for their cult
ENT_ROM_PLUTO,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 4.417-620: Pluto (Dis Pater) abducts Proserpina in Ovid's Roman account; the Parentalia and Lemuria involve propitiation of his realm; Fasti 4.445 names Pluto explicitly in the abduction scene
ENT_ROM_PROSERPINA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 4.417-620: Proserpina's abduction by Pluto (Roman version of the Persephone myth); Ceres's search; the negotiated return; the primary Latin literary source alongside Ovid's Metamorphoses
ENT_ROM_QUIRINUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 2.475-512: the Quirinalia (February 17); Romulus's deification as Quirinus; Ovid narrates the apotheosis of Romulus, who becomes Quirinus the civic god; the primary literary account of this deification myth"
ENT_ROM_ROBIGUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Attested in Ovid's Fasti (festival calendar).
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_SEMO_SANCUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Attested in Ovid's Fasti (festival calendar).
ENT_ROM_SUMMANUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Attested in Ovid's Fasti (festival calendar).
ENT_ROM_TELLUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Ovid, Fasti 1.671-674; 4.629-672: Tellus Mater and the Fordicidia."
ENT_ROM_VACUNA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Attested in Ovid's Fasti (festival calendar).
ENT_ROM_VEIOVIS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Attested in Ovid's Fasti (festival calendar).
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_VESTA,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 6.249-460: the Vestalia (June 7-15); the most important surviving ancient account of the Vesta cult; the Penates, the sacred flame, the ritual prohibition on donkeys during the festival; Ovid connects Vesta to the earth and to the primordial fire"
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"