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_PENATES"

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ENT_ROM_PENATES,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation Penates ENT_ROM_PENATES 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_PENATES,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation Penates ENT_ROM_PENATES Cicero, De Natura Deorum (45 BCE) SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA direct attestation DND 3.39 (Penates as a category; Cotta's critique). Attests theological classification of the Penates.
ENT_ROM_PENATES,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation Penates ENT_ROM_PENATES Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (Books 1–10, 21–45; c. 27 BCE – 9 CE) SRC_LIVY_AUC direct attestation Penates of Lavinium appear as the Trojan sacred objects brought to Italy; AUC 1.14.2; 5.52.8-10 (Camillus speech: Rome cannot abandon its Penates). State Penates at Lavinium as objects of annual Latin League ceremony.
ENT_ROM_PENATES,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation Penates ENT_ROM_PENATES Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI direct attestation Fasti 6.454: Vesta and the Penates are explicitly linked; Ovid treats the Penates as the guardian deities of the Roman state's inner sanctuary (the Atrium Vestae) as well as household gods brought from Troy by Aeneas; primary literary source for their cult
ENT_ROM_PENATES,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation Penates ENT_ROM_PENATES Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries SRC_ROMAN_OCD scholarly attestation Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries.
ENT_ROM_PENATES,SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ,direct attestation Penates ENT_ROM_PENATES Varro, Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum (c. 47 BCE, surviving via Augustine City of God) SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ direct attestation Varro identifies the Penates with the di selecti (principal gods) rather than the Trojan household gods; City of God 7.5.
ENT_ROM_PENATES,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation Penates ENT_ROM_PENATES Virgil, Aeneid (19 BCE) SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID direct attestation The Penates appear in Aeneid 2.293-295 (Hector's ghost tells Aeneas to take the Penates); 2.717 (Aeneas carries them from Troy); 3.148-171 (the Penates appear to Aeneas in a dream to direct him to Italy). The Aeneid is the primary source for the Trojan origin of the Roman Penates.

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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]);