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_SATURN"

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ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation Saturn ENT_ROM_SATURN 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_SATURN,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation Saturn ENT_ROM_SATURN Cicero, De Natura Deorum (45 BCE) SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA direct attestation DND 2.64 (Saturn = time in Stoic allegory, from satus/saturation). Documents Stoic allegorization of Saturn.
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation Saturn ENT_ROM_SATURN Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (Books 1–10, 21–45; c. 27 BCE – 9 CE) SRC_LIVY_AUC direct attestation Saturn's treasury (Aerarium Saturni) at the foot of the Capitol; AUC 2.21.2 (treasury established). Saturnalia festival implicit throughout. Attests Saturn's role as presider over state finance.
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation Saturn ENT_ROM_SATURN Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI direct attestation Fasti 1.233-254: Saturn's reign in the Golden Age; his arrival in Latium as a wanderer; the Saturnalia aetiologies are discussed in Macrobius (linked to Fasti tradition); Ovid treats Saturn as the archaic deity of the agricultural Golden Age
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation Saturn ENT_ROM_SATURN Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries SRC_ROMAN_OCD scholarly attestation Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries.
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ,direct attestation Saturn ENT_ROM_SATURN Varro, Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum (c. 47 BCE, surviving via Augustine City of God) SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ direct attestation Varro's Saturn as seed/sowing deity; City of God 7.13. Varro offers the canonical Roman allegorization of Saturn.
ENT_ROM_SATURN,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation Saturn ENT_ROM_SATURN Virgil, Aeneid (19 BCE) SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID direct attestation Saturn ruled Latium in the Golden Age (Aeneid 8.319-327: Evander's account); Saturn's Hill = the Capitol; his name gives Saturnia to Juno's cult title. Aeneid 8 is the key text for the Roman Golden Age of Saturn.

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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]);