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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{'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_ROM_JANUS"

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ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation Janus ENT_ROM_JANUS 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_JANUS,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation Janus ENT_ROM_JANUS Cicero, De Natura Deorum (45 BCE) SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA direct attestation DND 2.67 (Janus = ianus/doorway; Cicero's systematic analysis of Janus as a uniquely Roman deity without Greek parallel).
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation Janus ENT_ROM_JANUS Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (Books 1–10, 21–45; c. 27 BCE – 9 CE) SRC_LIVY_AUC direct attestation AUC 1.19.2-4 (Numa Pompilius institutes opening/closing of Janus's gates to signify peace or war); this is the primary prose source for the ritual of the Janus gates.
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation Janus ENT_ROM_JANUS Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI direct attestation Fasti 1.89-294: Janus is Ovid's primary subject for January; the god speaks at length about his two-faced nature, his guardianship of gates and beginnings, and his role as the first deity of any invocation; the most extensive literary account of Janus's theology
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation Janus ENT_ROM_JANUS Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries SRC_ROMAN_OCD scholarly attestation Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries.
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ,direct attestation Janus ENT_ROM_JANUS Varro, Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum (c. 47 BCE, surviving via Augustine City of God) SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ direct attestation Varro devotes special analysis to Janus (City of God 7.9); notes that Janus is uniquely Roman with no Greek equivalent and represents beginnings/doorways. Key source for Janus theology.
ENT_ROM_JANUS,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation Janus ENT_ROM_JANUS Virgil, Aeneid (19 BCE) SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID direct attestation Janus appears at 7.179-182 (palace of Latinus has statue of Janus) and 7.607-615 (the gates of Janus opened to declare war). Virgil is our primary literary source for the ritual function of the Janus gates.

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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]);