Usually a Spartan general, though later in the 50 years of wars it was taken over by an Athenian general after Athens established the anti-Persian Delian League following the turning back of the Persian invasion in 479 BCE.
The Persian army, and the armies of the Greek city-states.
well, the greek leader to start with was Cyrus the Great
Pericles .
Aristagoras, tyrant of Miletus.
He was a prominent leader in Athens, and commanded the Athenian fleet which formed part of the Greek fleet which opposed the Persian invasion.
Persian Wars.
Persian armies: Mardonius, Datis, Artaphernes. Greek armies: Aristagoras, Pausanias, Xanthippos, Cimon.
There were many leaders as the war lasted 50 years. The leader at Salamis was Eurybiades; at Plataea it was Pausanias.
The Persian-Greek wars stretched from 499-449 BCE in several phases. There were not two distinct wars.
On one side, Athens. On the other, Sparta.
Aegean Sea for its fleet. Dardanelles Strait for its army.
At Ephesus in 498 BCE the Persian army crushed a force of the Ionian cities augmented by contingents from Eretria and Athens.