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_ROM_JUPITER"

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ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation Jupiter ENT_ROM_JUPITER 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_JUPITER,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation Jupiter ENT_ROM_JUPITER Cicero, De Natura Deorum (45 BCE) SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA direct attestation DND 2.64-66 (Stoic account: Jupiter as universal providence); 3.53-60 (Epicurean/Academic critiques). Most systematic ancient account of Jupiter's theological function.
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation Jupiter ENT_ROM_JUPITER Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (Books 1–10, 21–45; c. 27 BCE – 9 CE) SRC_LIVY_AUC direct attestation Jupiter Optimus Maximus is the presiding deity of the Roman state throughout Livy. AUC 1.10 (first triumphal offering to Jupiter Feretrius by Romulus); 1.38 (Capitoline temple vow); 5.51-54 (Jupiter's will that Rome remain at the Tiber). Livy is the essential source for Jupiter's role as guarantor of Roman victory.
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation Jupiter ENT_ROM_JUPITER Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI direct attestation Fasti throughout: Jupiter is invoked and addressed in multiple calendar entries; his Ides (the 13th of each month are sacred to him); the Vinalia, Agonalia, and other festivals connected to Jupiter; his role as sky-father and state deity
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation Jupiter ENT_ROM_JUPITER Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries SRC_ROMAN_OCD scholarly attestation Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries.
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ,direct attestation Jupiter ENT_ROM_JUPITER Varro, Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum (c. 47 BCE, surviving via Augustine City of God) SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ direct attestation Varro treats Jupiter as the supreme deity of civic (political) theology; cited in Augustine City of God 7.9-11. Varro distinguishes the philosophical Jupiter (soul of the world) from the civic cult figure.
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation Jupiter ENT_ROM_JUPITER Virgil, Aeneid (19 BCE) SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID direct attestation Jupiter guarantees Rome's destiny to Juno (1.257-296: the "fates' will" speech); sends Mercury to Carthage (4.222-278); adjudicates the final battle (12.791-842). The Aeneid's Jupiter is the normative image of Jupiter as universal sovereign for the Roman literary tradition.

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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]);