For 10 points, name this first ancient Greek historian.
This man tells of a "boar of monstrous size" which ravishes some fields before killing the son of Croesus. Later on he describes the fall of Croesus and his kingdom, and one of his works concludes with the defeat of Mardonius at Plataea. A contemporary of Pericles, his critics included Plutarch, who wrote On the Malignity of [this man], and Thucydides, but Cicero praised him. Providing the only written account of Thermopylae, Salamis, Marathon, and the rest of the Greco-Persian Wars, For 10 points, name this first ancient Greek historian.
This man tells of a "boar of monstrous size" which ravishes some fields before killing the son of Croesus.
Herodotus