Entity Sources

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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{'description': 'e.g. Direct attestation, Secondary analysis, Epigraphic, Numismatic'}
source_note
{'description': 'Specific passage citations and notes on how this source attests the entity'}

7 rows where entity_id = "ENT_APOLLO"

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ENT_APOLLO,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation Apollo ENT_APOLLO Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY scholarly attestation Library 1.3.2, 1.4.1-2; birth on Delos; slaying of Python; his loves and offspring
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation Apollo ENT_APOLLO Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY direct attestation Theogony 918-920: Apollo and Artemis are born of Zeus and the Titaness Leto; "Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis who delights in arrows" — Hesiod provides the genealogical basis; the Homeric Hymns to Apollo (separately linked) give the full birth narrative at Delos; Hesiod's Theogony is the primary genealogical placement
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation Apollo ENT_APOLLO Homeric Hymns (7th-5th century BCE); trans. M.L. West, Homeric Hymns (Loeb Classical Library 496, Harvard 2003) SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS direct attestation HH 3 (To Apollo): one of the longest Homeric Hymns, in two parts; the Delian section narrates his birth on Delos from Leto; the Pythian section narrates his establishment of the oracle at Delphi and his slaying of the Python; the primary primary source for Apollo's cult foundations
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation Apollo ENT_APOLLO Homer, Iliad and Odyssey (c. 750-675 BCE); trans. Richmond Lattimore (Iliad, Univ. of Chicago 1951) and trans. Emily Wilson (Odyssey, Norton 2017) SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY direct attestation Apollo sends the plague that opens the Iliad (I.8-53); he is the divine protector of Troy; he kills Achilles with Paris as his instrument (implied Il. XXII); Iliad I, IV, V, VII, XV-XVI, XXII, XXIV
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation Apollo ENT_APOLLO Pausanias, Description of Greece (c. 143-176 CE); trans. W.H.S. Jones (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard 1918-1935) 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_APOLLO,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation Apollo ENT_APOLLO Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS index attestation Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.
ENT_APOLLO,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation Apollo ENT_APOLLO Theoi Project main index SRC_THEOI_HOME index attestation Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature).

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CREATE TABLE "entity_sources" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [source_id] TEXT REFERENCES [sources]([source_id]),
   [evidence_type] TEXT,
   [source_note] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [source_id], [evidence_type])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_sources_source_id]
    ON [entity_sources] ([source_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_sources_entity_id]
    ON [entity_sources] ([entity_id]);