entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note ENT_BENDIS,SRC_PLATO_REPUBLIC,direct attestation,"Republic 327a: Plato opens the dialogue at the Piraeus Bendideia festival, explicitly naming Bendis as ""the goddess."" Confirms the official Athenian state festival and its recent establishment. The most widely cited literary attestation of the Bendis cult." ENT_LETHE,SRC_PLATO_REPUBLIC,direct attestation,"Plato, Republic 10.621a-c: the river/plain of Lethe in the Myth of Er; cf. Virgil Aeneid 6.705."