entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ACHILLES,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias documents the hero cult of Achilles: his tomb at Sigeum in the Troad (referenced); cult at Elis (Book 6.23.3); the island of Leuke (White Island) in the Black Sea as his afterlife; his hero shrine at Sparta
ENT_ADIKIA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 5.18.2: on the Chest of Cypselus, Dike throttles the ugly Adikia (Injustice)."
ENT_AGANIPPE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 9.29.5: the spring Aganippe on Helicon, by the grove of the Muses."
ENT_AJAX,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias documents the hero shrine of Ajax on Salamis (Book 1.35.3-5) and describes the statue and cult; he records traditions about the discovery of his bones; Salamis was his primary cult center
ENT_AMPHIARAUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 1.34: the dream-oracle of the seer-hero Amphiaraus at Oropus.
ENT_ANYTUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 8.37.5: Anytos, one of the Titans, who reared Despoina at Lykosoura."
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias documents major Aphrodite sanctuaries: the important cult at Corinth (Book 2.4.7: temple on Acrocorinth with sacred prostitution), the Aphrodite Ourania sanctuary at Athens (Book 1.14.7), and the Cnidian Aphrodite tradition"
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias visits and describes the sanctuary at Delphi in detail (Book 10): the Temple of Apollo, the Oracle, the Omphalos, the treasuries of the Greek cities, and the paintings of Polygnotus; also Apollo at Corinth (Book 2) and Apollo Epikourios at Bassae (Book 8)"
ENT_ARES,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias describes the Temple of Ares in the Athenian Agora (Book 1.8.4) and Ares cults at Sparta (where he was bound in chains) and Geronthrai
ENT_ARTEMIS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias describes the cult of Artemis Orthia at Sparta (Book 3.16.7-11), Artemis Laphria at Patrai (Book 7.18-19), and various Artemis sanctuaries; he documents the ritual practices at Brauron (Book 1.23.7)"
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias visits the Asclepium at Epidaurus (Book 2.26-28): the most famous healing sanctuary in the ancient world; he describes the temple, the cult statue, the abaton (incubation hall), the miraculous healing tablets, and the sacred snakes; the primary ancient source for the Epidaurian Asclepius cult"
ENT_ASCLEPIUS_HERO,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias Book 2.26-28: the hero-cult aspect of Asclepius at Epidaurus; also Asclepius shrines at Corinth, Sicyon, Athens, Cos, and Pergamon"
ENT_ATHENA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias devotes extensive coverage to the Acropolis of Athens (Book 1.22-28): the Parthenon, the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos by Pheidias, the Erechtheion, and the Athena Promachos; also Athena Alea at Tegea (Book 8.45-47)"
ENT_AUXO,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 9.35.1-2 (the Athenian Horai/Seasons Auxo, Carpo, and Thallo)."
ENT_CAERUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 5.14.9: the altar of Kairos (Opportunity) near the stadium entrance at Olympia.
ENT_CARPO,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 9.35.1-2 (the Athenian Horai/Seasons Auxo, Carpo, and Thallo)."
ENT_CORYCIA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias, Description of Greece (the local nymph and her cult)."
ENT_CORYCIAN_NYMPHS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias, Description of Greece (the local nymph and her cult)."
ENT_DACTYLS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 5.7.6-9 (the Idaean Dactyls and the founding of the Olympic Games).
ENT_DEMETER,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias visits Eleusis and provides the most detailed ancient description of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore and the Eleusinian Mysteries (Book 1.37-38); he cannot reveal the secret rites but describes the sanctuary structures, monuments, and public myth; the primary ancient source for the physical site"
ENT_DESPOINA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 8.37: the mysteries of Despoina at Lykosoura; daughter of Poseidon and Demeter.
ENT_DIONYSUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias documents Dionysiac cult throughout Greece: his tomb at Delphi (Book 10.24.6), the Lenaia festival at Athens, the cult at Sicyon (Book 2.7.5-6), and the Dionysus Lysios sanctuary at Corinth (Book 2.2.5)"
ENT_DIRCE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias, Description of Greece (the local nymph and her cult)."
ENT_ELEOS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 1.17.1: the Athenians alone honour an altar of Eleos (Mercy) in the agora.
ENT_EPHYRA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 2.1.1: the Oceanid Ephyra, first to dwell in the land later called Corinth."
ENT_EPIONE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 2.29.1: the wife of Asclepius, her image in the precinct at Epidaurus."
ENT_EURYNOMOS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 10.28.7: the corpse-devouring underworld daimon in Polygnotus' Nekyia at Delphi.
ENT_HADES,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias records the sanctuary of Hades at Elis (Book 6.25.2-3): open only once per year to the priest; the only Panhellenic temple to Hades in Greece; also the Nekyomanteion at Ephyra (Book 1.17.5)
ENT_HADES_KLYMENOS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 2.35.9: Hades worshipped as Klymenos at Hermione.
ENT_HECATE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias describes the oldest cult statue of Hecate (by the sculptor Alcamenes; placed near the Propylaea of the Athenian Acropolis; Book 2.30.2); also Hecate at Aegina and Argos; this is the primary ancient source for her earliest cult images
ENT_HEPHAESTUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias describes the Hephaisteion at Athens (mistakenly called the ""Theseum"" in later times; Book 1.14.6); the cult of Hephaestus at Lemnos; his role in Attic metalworking religion"
ENT_HERA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias describes the Heraion at Olympia (the oldest temple at the site; Book 5.16-17) and the Heraion at Argos (Book 2.17); the Hera cult at Argos is documented as one of the most important in Greece; he records the games of the Heraia
ENT_HERACLES,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias documents Heracles' hero shrines throughout Greece: at Athens, Thebes (Book 9.11.1-2), Olympia, and Peloponnesus; the Herakleia festival; his cult was the most widespread hero cult in the ancient world"
ENT_HERMES,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias documents the Hermes cult at various sites: herm statues throughout Athens, the sanctuary at Pheneos (Book 8.14.10), and the early Arcadian Hermes cults; also Hermes Kriophoros (ram-bearer) at Tanagra"
ENT_HIPPOLYTUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias documents the hero cult of Hippolytus at Troezen (Book 2.32.1-3): his temple and cult statue; the annual offerings of hair from Troezenian youths before marriage; he records the dispute over whether he was truly killed or was preserved by Artemis in Italy
ENT_HYGIEIA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 1.34.3 (Amphiareion altar at Oropus); cf. dedicated Orphic Hymn 68.
ENT_IASO,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 1.34.3: named on the altar at the Amphiareion at Oropus with Hygieia and Panacea.
ENT_IPHIGENIA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias documents the hero cult of Iphigenia at Brauron (Book 1.23.7) and at Hermione (Book 2.35.1); the Brauron sanctuary to Artemis preserves her cult alongside Artemis; he records the traditions about her transformation into Hecate or her escape to Tauris
ENT_KORE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias describes the sanctuary of Kore (= Persephone as mystery-cult title) at Eleusis alongside Demeter (Book 1.37-38) and in many local shrines across Greece; Kore is the cult name used at Eleusis for Persephone before the abduction; Pausanias is the primary source for the cult geography of Kore-worship across the Greek world
ENT_LINUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 9.29.6-9: the musician Linos, son of Urania, killed by Apollo."
ENT_MANIA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 8.34.1-3: the sanctuary of the Maniai near Megalopolis, where Orestes went mad."
ENT_MANTO,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 9.33.2: the prophetic daughter of Tiresias, sent to Colophon."
ENT_NEDA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias, Description of Greece (the local nymph and her cult)."
ENT_NEMESIS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias visits the great sanctuary of Nemesis at Rhamnous in Attica (Book 1.33.2-8): the cult statue of Nemesis made by Pheidias from a block of Parian marble that the Persians had brought to make a victory monument; this is the most important ancient text for the Nemesis cult at Rhamnous
ENT_ORPHEUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias describes the tomb of Orpheus on the river Helikon in Macedonia (Book 9.30.5-12) and the tradition that his lyre was preserved there; also his head and lyre floating to Lesbos; the oracle of Orpheus's head
ENT_PALAEMON,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 2.1.3: the Isthmian cult of Palaemon, with the dolphin and the founding of the games."
ENT_PAN,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias documents Pan's cult in Arcadia (Book 8.37.11) as well as the cave of Pan on the north slope of the Acropolis at Athens (Book 1.28.4); the Athens cave was established after Pan appeared to Pheidippides before Marathon (Herodotus and Pausanias both record this)
ENT_PANACEA,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 1.34.3: ""to Aphrodite and Panakeia, and to Iaso, Hygieia and Athena Paionia."""
ENT_PELOPS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias documents the Pelopion at Olympia (Book 5.13.1-3): a sacred enclosure holding Pelops's hero shrine; the annual sacrifice of a black ram at the Pelopion before Olympic games; the chariot race with Oenomaus; Pelops was the eponymous hero of the Peloponnese
ENT_PERSEPHONE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias describes the Eleusinian sanctuary of Kore/Persephone (Book 1.38) and her shrines throughout Greece; also the sanctuary of Persephone at Locri (Book 6.25.4-5)
ENT_POSEIDON,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias documents the sanctuary of Poseidon at the Isthmus of Corinth (Book 2.1-2) and his contest with Athena for Athens (Book 1.24.3); also Poseidon Hippios (horse-Poseidon) shrines throughout
ENT_PRAXIS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 1.43.6: the ivory Aphrodite ""surnamed Praxis"" at Megara."
ENT_PRIAPUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 9.31.2: Priapos, most revered at Lampsacus, son of Dionysus and Aphrodite."
ENT_PROTESILAUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias documents the hero shrine of Protesilaus at Elaeus in the Thracian Chersonese (Book 1.34.2); he describes the sacred grove and temenos; Protesilaus's cult was important in the area around the Hellespont
ENT_SIBYL,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 10.12 (the Sibyls and their oracles).
ENT_TELESPHORUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 2.11.7 (Telesphorus, the healing daimon associated with Asclepius)."
ENT_THALLO,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 9.35.1-2 (the Athenian Horai/Seasons Auxo, Carpo, and Thallo)."
ENT_THESEUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias documents the Theseum (Hephaisteion area, Athens; Book 1.17.2-6): Theseus's bones brought from Scyros by Cimon; his hero cult at Athens; the Pyanepsia and other Theseus festivals; Book 1-2 extensively"
ENT_THYIADS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 10.4.3: the Thyiades, women who dance the biennial Dionysiac rites on Parnassus."
ENT_TROPHONIUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 9.39: the oracle of Trophonios at Lebadeia and its descent ritual.
ENT_ZEUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias describes the Temple of Zeus at Olympia extensively (Book 5-6); the cult statue by Pheidias was considered one of the Seven Wonders; he also records the oracle of Zeus at Dodona (Book 7) and Zeus's shrines throughout Greece
ENT_ZEUS_KTESIOS_CULT,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,Pausanias 1.31.4: the household property-protector cult form; cf. Antoninus Liberalis 19.
ENT_ZEUS_MEILICHIOS_CULT,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias 1.37.4: the altar of Zeus Meilichios on the Sacred Way, where Theseus was purified."