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.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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'}

5 rows where entity_id = "ENT_ATLAS"

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ENT_ATLAS,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation Atlas ENT_ATLAS Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY scholarly attestation Library 1.2.3, 2.5.11; holds up the sky as his punishment; Heracles temporarily takes his burden in the Hesperides labor
ENT_ATLAS,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation Atlas ENT_ATLAS Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY direct attestation Theogony 507-520: Atlas is a son of Iapetus and Clymene; condemned by Zeus after the Titanomachy to hold up the sky on his shoulders at the western edge of the world "by stern Necessity"; Hesiod provides the primary genealogical account; the punishment narrative is foundational for all subsequent Atlas mythology
ENT_ATLAS,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation Atlas ENT_ATLAS 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 Atlas is named in the Odyssey V.52-54 as the father of Calypso: "his daughter, the nymph Calypso whose father is destructive Atlas who knows the depths of the whole sea" — this is the earliest Greek attestation of Atlas as Calypso's father
ENT_ATLAS,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation Atlas ENT_ATLAS Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS index attestation Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.
ENT_ATLAS,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation Atlas ENT_ATLAS 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]);