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'}

6 rows where entity_id = "ENT_ROM_CERES"

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ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation Ceres ENT_ROM_CERES Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price, Religions of Rome SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS scholarly attestation Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome.
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation Ceres ENT_ROM_CERES Cicero, De Natura Deorum (45 BCE) SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA direct attestation DND 2.67 (Ceres as grain, from gerere); Cicero gives the Stoic etymology Ceres < gero.
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation Ceres ENT_ROM_CERES Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (Books 1–10, 21–45; c. 27 BCE – 9 CE) SRC_LIVY_AUC direct attestation Temple of Ceres (Aventine triad Ceres-Liber-Libera) dedicated 493 BCE; AUC 2.41.8. Key source for the Aventine plebeian triad and Ceres's role in grain supply.
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation Ceres ENT_ROM_CERES Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI direct attestation Fasti 4.393-620: the Cerealia (April 12-19); Ovid narrates the Rape of Proserpina in the Roman version (Ceres searches for her daughter; the institution of her cult); the primary Latin literary account of the Ceres/Proserpina myth
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation Ceres ENT_ROM_CERES Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries SRC_ROMAN_OCD scholarly attestation Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries.
ENT_ROM_CERES,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation Ceres ENT_ROM_CERES Virgil, Aeneid (19 BCE) SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID direct attestation Ceres invoked at Aeneid 4.58-59 (Dido's wedding rites); 6.479 (underworld context). Grain goddess role attested in ritual contexts throughout.

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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]);