<P> Almost all the primary sources for the Greco - Persian Wars are Greek ; there are no surviving historical accounts from the Persian side . By some distance , 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 part of the Persian empire ) . 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 recent history . Herodotus 's approach was novel and , at least in Western society , he invented ' history ' as a discipline . As historian Tom Holland has it , `` For the first time , a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous , nor to the whims and wishes of some god , nor to a people 's claim to manifest destiny , but rather explanations he could verify personally . '' </P>
<P> Almost all the primary sources for the Greco - Persian Wars are Greek ; there are no surviving historical accounts from the Persian side . By some distance , 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 part of the Persian empire ) . 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 recent history . Herodotus 's approach was novel and , at least in Western society , he invented ' history ' as a discipline . As historian Tom Holland has it , `` For the first time , a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous , nor to the whims and wishes of some god , nor to a people 's claim to manifest destiny , but rather explanations he could verify personally . '' </P>
who recorded the events of the greco-persian war
who recorded the events of the greco-persian war
Herodotus
Herodotus