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_PERSEPHONE"

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ENT_PERSEPHONE,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY scholarly attestation Library 1.5.1-3; abducted by Hades; causes of the seasons; role at Eleusis
ENT_PERSEPHONE,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY direct attestation Theogony 912-914: Persephone is born of Zeus and Demeter; Theogony also alludes to her abduction by Hades (Theogony 768-774); Hesiod gives the genealogical foundation; the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (separately linked) narrates the full abduction myth; Hesiod establishes Persephone as daughter of Zeus and the grain goddess
ENT_PERSEPHONE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE Homeric Hymns (7th-5th century BCE); trans. M.L. West, Homeric Hymns (Loeb Classical Library 496, Harvard 2003) SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS direct attestation HH 2 (To Demeter): Persephone's abduction and return from the underworld; the origin of the seasons as explained by her alternation between Hades and her mother Demeter; central figure of the hymn alongside Demeter
ENT_PERSEPHONE,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE 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 Persephone is named as queen of the underworld and Hades' consort (Odyssey X.491, XI.47, XI.226, XI.386, XI.634-635); she presides over the ghosts; Odyssey XI
ENT_PERSEPHONE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE 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 Eleusinian sanctuary of Kore/Persephone (Book 1.38) and her shrines throughout Greece; also the sanctuary of Persephone at Locri (Book 6.25.4-5)
ENT_PERSEPHONE,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE Theoi Project main index SRC_THEOI_HOME index attestation Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature).
ENT_PERSEPHONE,SRC_THEOI_UNDERWORLD,index attestation Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE 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]);