The two king-lists disagree structurally, not just numerically: Jerome's Medes run Arbaces, Sosarmus, Madyus, Cardiceas, Deioces, Phraortes, Cyaxares, Astyages, where Herodotus has only the last four. Any spine rendering should say so rather than average them.两份王表的分歧在结构而非数字：哲罗姆的米底王序为阿尔巴凯斯、索萨尔摩斯、马杜斯、卡尔迪凯阿斯、代奥凯斯、弗拉欧尔特斯、库阿克萨列斯、阿斯提阿格斯，希罗多德只有末四位。时间轴渲染应如实说明，而不取折中。
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
Hdt. 1.95–130 — Deioces and the building of Ecbatana, Phraortes, Cyaxares, the twenty-eight years of Scythian rule over Asia, and the transfer of power to the Persians希罗多德 1.95–130——代奥凯斯与埃克巴坦那的兴建、弗拉欧尔特斯、库阿克萨列斯、斯基泰人统治亚细亚二十八年，以及政权转归波斯
Diodorus Siculus — Library of History （狄奥多罗斯·历史丛书）dated witness · 系年见证73 loci · well-attested
§ 3.3–3, 9.1–30, 12.12–19
Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War （修昔底德·伯罗奔尼撒战争史）dated witness · 系年见证3 loci · sparse
§ 1.126–126, 6.4–5
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