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'}

7 rows where entity_id = "ENT_HERMES"

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ENT_HERMES,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation Hermes ENT_HERMES Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY scholarly attestation Library 3.10.2; son of Zeus and Maia; inventor of the lyre; psychopomp function; role in the Trojan cycle
ENT_HERMES,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation Hermes ENT_HERMES Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY direct attestation Theogony 938-939: Hermes is born of Zeus and the nymph Maia (daughter of Atlas); Hesiod provides the genealogical placement as son of the youngest daughter of Atlas; the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (HH 4) gives the full birth and infant-trickster narrative; Hesiod establishes the lineage
ENT_HERMES,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation Hermes ENT_HERMES Homeric Hymns (7th-5th century BCE); trans. M.L. West, Homeric Hymns (Loeb Classical Library 496, Harvard 2003) SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS direct attestation HH 4 (To Hermes): the most narrative Homeric Hymn; narrates the infant Hermes stealing Apollo's cattle, inventing the lyre from a tortoise-shell, and eventually exchanging the lyre with Apollo to receive the caduceus and the role of messenger; the foundational text for Hermes' role as trickster, inventor, and divine intermediary
ENT_HERMES,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation Hermes ENT_HERMES 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 Hermes escorts Priam through the Greek camp to ransom Hector's body (Iliad XXIV); in the Odyssey he delivers Zeus's commands to Calypso (Od. V) and escorts the dead suitors to Hades (Od. XXIV); Iliad XXIV; Odyssey V, X, XXIV
ENT_HERMES,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation Hermes ENT_HERMES 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 documents the Hermes cult at various sites: herm statues throughout Athens, the sanctuary at Pheneos (Book 8.14.10), and the early Arcadian Hermes cults; also Hermes Kriophoros (ram-bearer) at Tanagra
ENT_HERMES,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation Hermes ENT_HERMES Theoi Project main index SRC_THEOI_HOME index attestation Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature).
ENT_HERMES,SRC_THEOI_UNDERWORLD,index attestation Hermes ENT_HERMES 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]);