# The Cambyses logos stores a mad-king file of sanctuary outrage and arbitrary killing as received royal harm

Date: 525

## The fact

The Histories' Cambyses logos, as later transmitted, stores sanctuary wounds, kin-killing, and a madness heading after Egypt is taken. Conventional event-years sit in the 520s BCE. The instrument is that received royal-harm logos, not a recovered Persian court minute. Herodotus's documented role is: He composed a hostile Cambyses logos. Egyptian priestly sources are suspected of colour. Low confidence on unique clinical madness; high that the logos exists.

## Context

Egyptian priestly informants are a suspected colouring source in later scholarship. Sharing that limit is required. The constitutional debate that follows Cambyses' death is a neighbouring improving row, not this madness file. The setting of The Cambyses logos stores a mad-king file of sanctuary outrage and arbitrary killing as received royal harm is the public file around -0525-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of The Cambyses logos stores a mad-king file of sanctuary outrage and arbitrary killing as received royal harm. Naming Herodotus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0525-01-01 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.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 3 Cambyses neighbourhood (later carrier) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=3 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent locator: Britannica — Cambyses II at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 3 Cambyses neighbourhood (later carrier) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=3; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent carrier: Britannica — Cambyses II (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 3 Cambyses neighbourhood (later carrier) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=3; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

Worsening path from The Cambyses logos stores a mad-king file of sanctuary outrage and arbitrary killing as received royal harm on -0525-01-01. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The Cambyses logos stores a mad-king file of sanctuary outrage and arbitrary killing as received royal harm under -0525-01-01 for Herodotus. Established: a sourced public record of The Cambyses logos stores a mad-king file of sanctuary outrage and arbitrary killing as received royal harm under -0525-01-01.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Event-years are 6th-century; composition is 5th. Do not upgrade the logos to a medical chart. Mixed effects of The Cambyses logos stores a mad-king file of sanctuary outrage and arbitrary killing as received royal harm are separate paths.

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

## People

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

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=3
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/he-cambyses-justice