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

6 rows where entity_id = "ENT_ASCLEPIUS"

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ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation Asclepius ENT_ASCLEPIUS Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY scholarly attestation Library 3.10.3-4; son of Apollo and Coronis; raised by Chiron; learns healing; raises the dead; killed by Zeus with a thunderbolt; later deified
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation Asclepius ENT_ASCLEPIUS Homeric Hymns (7th-5th century BCE); trans. M.L. West, Homeric Hymns (Loeb Classical Library 496, Harvard 2003) SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS direct attestation HH 16 (To Asclepius): the primary ancient hymn to Asclepius as a healer god; describes him as the son of Apollo and Coronis, raised by Chiron, who learned the art of healing; the hymn establishes his role as soother of harsh disease
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation Asclepius ENT_ASCLEPIUS 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 Asclepius is named in Iliad II.729-733 as the father of the two healers Machaon and Podalirius, who command men from Tricca; he is called "the blameless physician"; this is the primary Homeric attestation of Asclepius, before his later development into a healer god
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation Asclepius ENT_ASCLEPIUS 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 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,SRC_THEOI_DEIFIED,index attestation Asclepius ENT_ASCLEPIUS Theoi Deified Mortals index SRC_THEOI_DEIFIED index attestation Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.
ENT_ASCLEPIUS,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation Asclepius ENT_ASCLEPIUS 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]);