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'}

5 rows where entity_id = "ENT_HECATE"

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ENT_HECATE,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation Hecate ENT_HECATE Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY scholarly attestation Library 1.2.4; daughter of Perses and Asteria; dwells in underworld; companion of Persephone in the abduction myth
ENT_HECATE,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation Hecate ENT_HECATE Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY direct attestation Theogony 411-452: Hecate receives the longest individual praise passage in the Theogony — "Hecate whom Zeus the son of Cronos honoured above all" (412); Zeus gave her a share of the honors of earth, sea, and starry sky; she aids those who pray to her in all domains (war, athletics, fishing, herding, judgment, children); daughter of Titan Perses and the Titaness Asteria; Hesiod is the earliest and most complete ancient theological account of Hecate's power; the Chthonic/liminal aspects attested in later sources build on this foundation
ENT_HECATE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation Hecate ENT_HECATE 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 describes the oldest cult statue of Hecate (by the sculptor Alcamenes; placed near the Propylaea of the Athenian Acropolis; Book 2.30.2); also Hecate at Aegina and Argos; this is the primary ancient source for her earliest cult images
ENT_HECATE,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation Hecate ENT_HECATE Theoi Project main index SRC_THEOI_HOME index attestation Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature).
ENT_HECATE,SRC_THEOI_UNDERWORLD,index attestation Hecate ENT_HECATE Theoi Underworld Gods index SRC_THEOI_UNDERWORLD index attestation Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.

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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]);