who wrote the history of the persian wars

The history of the Persian Wars was written by Herodotus, a Greek historian from Halicarnassus, who lived around 484 to 425 BC. He authored "The Histories," which is a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, covering major battles such as Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale. Herodotus is often called "The Father of History" due to his systematic investigation and narrative style of recording historical events, which included ethnographical and geographical context in addition to the military history. His work laid the foundation for the study of history in Western literature.