entity_sources: ENT_SCAMANDER, SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY, direct attestation

2,936 links between entities and the sources that attest them, with evidence type and passage-level notes. The primary evidence layer: every entity classification traces to at least one record here.

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entity_id	source_id	evidence_type	source_note
ENT_SCAMANDER	SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY	direct attestation	Scamander (also called Xanthos) is the major river of the Trojan plain and has a speaking narrative role in Iliad XXI.136-382: Achilles kills so many Trojans in the river that Scamander/Xanthos rises up in anger and tries to drown Achilles; Hephaestus then intervenes with fire; this is the most dramatic divine-vs-hero confrontation in the Iliad