Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
The Persian Wars were the defining moment in Greek history.
The Greek who wrote about the Persian was was Herodotus in 'The Histories'. Also Thoukydides wrote about this war.
Father of History is a title sometimes given to Herodotos of Halicarnassos, who lectured and wrote during the second half of the 5th Century BCE, forty years after the Persian War. He included an account of the Persian invasion in his history.
The Greek and Persian War started in 499 B.C.
Which particular war? The Persian what?
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War.
Western history would have moved on regardless of the Persian War. Had the Persians won the war, the elasticity of the Greek world would have thrown it off. Alexander the Great, inheritor of a Macedonia which was a vassal of Persia at the time of the Persian War, demonstrated this when he conquered the Persian Empire.
Greek literature during the Golden Age was characterized by realism, and religious ideas. Much of Greek literature was poetry, history, or drama. Some Greeek writers and historians during the time of the Golden Age were Herodatus, who wrote the history of the Persian Wars; Thucydides, who wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War; Aeschylus, who wrote tradgedies; Sophocles, who wrote dramas, Euripides, who wrote psycological tradgedies; and Aristophanes, who wrote comedies.
The principal and most reliable one was Herodotos of Halicarnassos.
It was between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire. Today we call it the Persian War to differentiate it from the wars between the Greek city-states. It is often called the Greco-Persian War.
Herodotus, who lived in Athens for a long time, developed the accurate reporting of events. His book on the Persian Wars is considered the first work of history.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus.