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'}

4 rows where entity_id = "ENT_TYPHON"

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ENT_TYPHON,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation Typhon ENT_TYPHON Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY scholarly attestation Library 1.6.3; the greatest monster; son of Gaia (and Tartarus); Zeus defeats him and buries him under Etna; the gods flee from him in animal forms in Egypt
ENT_TYPHON,SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV,scholarly attestation Typhon ENT_TYPHON Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992) SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV scholarly attestation Burkert (1992) pp. 29-34: Typhon as the Greek reception of both Ullikummi (Hurrian) and Tiamat (Babylonian); the "great monster created to fight the champion" narrative pattern; the Syrian connection of Typhon's myth (located near Cilicia in Greek tradition)
ENT_TYPHON,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation Typhon ENT_TYPHON Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY direct attestation Hesiod, Theogony 820-880; also Pindar Pythian 1.15-28; Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 351-372
ENT_TYPHON,SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON,scholarly attestation Typhon ENT_TYPHON Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON scholarly attestation West (1997) documents Ullikummi→Typhon as the best-attested cross-cultural monster parallel

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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]);