Herodotus makes the Athenian twenty ships 'the beginning of evils for Greeks and barbarians' (5.97), which is the causal link the spine should draw from this event to the existing persian-wars and marathon events.希罗多德称雅典的二十艘船是'希腊人与蛮族祸端之始'（5.97）；时间轴应据此在本事件与既有的 persian-wars、marathon 之间建立因果连线。
The accounts记述 · the ancient witnesses
Greek historians · 希腊史家
Herodotus — Histories （希罗多德·历史）primary source · 源典1 loci · sparse
§ 6.18–18 · 1/1 in the cited books
Hdt. 5.28–6.32 — the Naxos expedition and its failure, Histiaeus' tattooed message, Aristagoras at Sparta and at Athens, the burning of Sardis, Cyprus, Lade, Miletus, and the Persian resettlement of Ionia希罗多德 5.28–6.32——远征纳克索斯及其失败、希斯提埃奥斯的刺字密信、阿里斯塔戈拉斯赴斯巴达与雅典、焚烧萨迪斯、塞浦路斯、拉德、米利都，以及波斯人重整伊奥尼亚
Provenance: “primary source” = curated canonical witness (editorial); “dated witness” = derived from the ToposText date index by year-span, with the matched loci count. Sparse counts may include incidental mentions.出处：「源典」为校订之正典见证（编辑判断）；「系年见证」由 ToposText 系年索引按年代跨度推得，附匹配条目数；稀少者或含偶涉。
On the timeline时间轴上
→ See this and all 18 historians on the chronology spine于编年脊柱上一览本事件与全部 18 位史家