# The Ionian revolt logos narrates Miletus sacked and people moved as received war inquiry, not as his command

Date: 494

## The fact

The Histories narrate the Ionian revolt through Aristagoras to the sack of Miletus and the moving of people. Conventional event-year for the sack is 494 BCE; the inquiry is later. The instrument is that logos as received war-writing, not a casualty table he authored as a general. Herodotus's documented role is: He wrote the logos. Aristagoras, Histiaeus, and Persian commanders fought it. Conventional event-year 494 for Miletus; composition is later.

## Context

Darius and unnamed Persian officers share the suppression. Sharing those commands is required. Marathon is the sequel logos, not this sack. Halicarnassus' own Carian file sits in the vita row. Perseus English locates the carrier. The setting of The Ionian revolt logos narrates Miletus sacked and people moved as received war inquiry, not as his command is the public file around -0494-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [forced-displacement-scale](/drivers/forced-displacement-scale) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 5–6 Ionian neighbourhood (later carrier) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=5 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent locator: Britannica — Ionian Revolt at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 5–6 Ionian neighbourhood (later carrier) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=5; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent carrier: Britannica — Ionian Revolt (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 5–6 Ionian neighbourhood (later carrier) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=5; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

Worsening path from The Ionian revolt logos narrates Miletus sacked and people moved as received war inquiry, not as his command on -0494-01-01. A received sack-and-deportation narrative is a displacement path. He is the inquirer, not the general. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not split every campaign season into a Fact. One revolt logos. Do not date this to a 1920 edition. Mixed effects of The Ionian revolt logos narrates Miletus sacked and people moved as received war inquiry, not as his command are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The Ionian revolt logos narrates Miletus sacked and people moved as received war inquiry, not as his command under -0494-01-01 for Herodotus. Established: a sourced public record of The Ionian revolt logos narrates Miletus sacked and people moved as received war inquiry, not as his command under -0494-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of The Ionian revolt logos narrates Miletus sacked and people moved as received war inquiry, not as his command. Naming Herodotus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0494-01-01 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.

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

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

## People

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

## Drivers

- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=5
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/he-ionian-revolt