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'}

8 rows where entity_id = "ENT_ZEUS"

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ENT_ZEUS,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation Zeus ENT_ZEUS Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY scholarly attestation Library 1.1.5-1.2.1; birth, Titan war, cosmological division, loves and offspring
ENT_ZEUS,SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV,scholarly attestation Zeus ENT_ZEUS 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. 22-29: Zeus as the victorious storm deity who defeats the monster after the divine succession; the Teshub/Zeus and Marduk/Zeus parallels; the "storm-deity fights monster" pattern transmitted from Mesopotamia and Anatolia into Greek mythology
ENT_ZEUS,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation Zeus ENT_ZEUS Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY direct attestation Theogony 453-506, 820-885: Zeus's birth (Rhea hides him in Crete; gives Kronos a stone); the Titanomachy (617-720); Zeus defeats Typhon (820-885) and distributes honors among the gods; Theogony is the primary ancient narrative of Zeus's rise to power and his establishment as king of the gods; his many unions and the offspring born from them (886-1020) form the genealogical basis of the Greek pantheon
ENT_ZEUS,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation Zeus ENT_ZEUS Homeric Hymns (7th-5th century BCE); trans. M.L. West, Homeric Hymns (Loeb Classical Library 496, Harvard 2003) SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS direct attestation HH 23 (To Zeus): short hymn to Zeus as the greatest and most glorious of the immortals; best and greatest; who accomplishes all things with Themis who sits beside him
ENT_ZEUS,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation Zeus ENT_ZEUS Homer, Iliad and Odyssey (c. 750-675 BCE); trans. Richmond Lattimore (Iliad, Univ. of Chicago 1951) and trans. Emily Wilson (Odyssey, Norton 2017) SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY direct attestation Zeus is the central divine authority of both epics; he presides over the divine assembly, enforces fate (moira), and is the addressee of prayers from both Greeks and Trojans; Iliad I-XXIV and Odyssey I-XXIV throughout
ENT_ZEUS,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation Zeus ENT_ZEUS Pausanias, Description of Greece (c. 143-176 CE); trans. W.H.S. Jones (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard 1918-1935) SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION direct attestation Pausanias describes the Temple of Zeus at Olympia extensively (Book 5-6); the cult statue by Pheidias was considered one of the Seven Wonders; he also records the oracle of Zeus at Dodona (Book 7) and Zeus's shrines throughout Greece
ENT_ZEUS,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation Zeus ENT_ZEUS Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS index attestation Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.
ENT_ZEUS,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation Zeus ENT_ZEUS Theoi Project main index SRC_THEOI_HOME index attestation Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature).

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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]);