 The main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian Herodotus.Herodotus, who has been called the 'Father of History', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor (then under Persian overlordship).He wrote his 'Enquiries' (Greek – "Historia"; English – "(The) Histories") around 440–430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history (the wars finally ending in 450 BC).