w how the two races came into conflict.''Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c. 484-425 BC) is the author of ''The Histories'', an account of the rise of the Persian Empire and its conflicts with neighboring states and peoples, particularly the Greeks, culminating in Xerxes the Great's invasion of Greece and its defeat by an alliance of Greek city-states in 480-79 BC.Herodotus is the main source on the U