# The Salamis-neighbourhood logos narrates Athens evacuated and the Acropolis burned as received war harm

Date: 480

## The fact

The Histories narrate the 480 evacuation of Athens and the burning of the Acropolis before Salamis. The instrument is that received harm-logos. He is not stored as Xerxes. Later heritage listings of the Acropolis are not his act. Herodotus's documented role is: He wrote the evacuation and fire. Xerxes' forces and Athenian offices acted. He did not command either fleet.

## Context

Themistocles is the named Athenian speaker in the logos. Sharing the evacuation with unnamed households is required. Ionian displacement is earlier. The setting of The Salamis-neighbourhood logos narrates Athens evacuated and the Acropolis burned as received war harm is the public file around -0480-09-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not file 1987 UNESCO as 480. Do not twin with Thermopylae as a second same battle. Mixed effects of The Salamis-neighbourhood logos narrates Athens evacuated and the Acropolis burned as received war harm are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 8 Athens and Salamis neighbourhood (later carrier) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=8 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent locator: Britannica — Persian destruction of Athens / Salamis neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 8 Athens and Salamis neighbourhood (later carrier) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=8; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent carrier: Britannica — Persian destruction of Athens / Salamis neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 8 Athens and Salamis neighbourhood (later carrier) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=8; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

Worsening path from The Salamis-neighbourhood logos narrates Athens evacuated and the Acropolis burned as received war harm on -0480-09-01. A received city-evacuation and sanctuary-burning logos is a humanitarian-harm path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The Salamis-neighbourhood logos narrates Athens evacuated and the Acropolis burned as received war harm under -0480-09-01 for Herodotus. Established: a sourced public record of The Salamis-neighbourhood logos narrates Athens evacuated and the Acropolis burned as received war harm under -0480-09-01.

Shared responsibility is part of The Salamis-neighbourhood logos narrates Athens evacuated and the Acropolis burned as received war harm. Naming Herodotus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0480-09-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Herodotus: https://factrail.ai/people/herodotus

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=8
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/he-athens-burned