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_NEMESIS"

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ENT_NEMESIS,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation Nemesis ENT_NEMESIS Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY direct attestation Theogony 223: Nemesis is a daughter of Night — "baleful Nemesis to afflict mortal men"; Works and Days 197-201: Nemesis and Aidos will leave the earth when the Iron Age reaches its lowest; Hesiod is the primary ancient text for Nemesis as a personified divine retribution born of Nyx
ENT_NEMESIS,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation Nemesis ENT_NEMESIS 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 Nemesis is named in the Odyssey (XIV.283: "divine nemesis from the gods") as a divine retribution force; she does not appear as a personified deity with narrative role in Homer, but the concept nemesis (divine indignation at excess) operates throughout both epics
ENT_NEMESIS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation Nemesis ENT_NEMESIS 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 great sanctuary of Nemesis at Rhamnous in Attica (Book 1.33.2-8): the cult statue of Nemesis made by Pheidias from a block of Parian marble that the Persians had brought to make a victory monument; this is the most important ancient text for the Nemesis cult at Rhamnous
ENT_NEMESIS,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation Nemesis ENT_NEMESIS Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS index attestation Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.
ENT_NEMESIS,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation Nemesis ENT_NEMESIS 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]);