Calm down...friend. Have you actually read Herodotus? Doubtful.
His sources were many but among them were from Greeks living and working in Persia at the time. Do you know that Herodotus wrote some beautiful passsges about the Persians? It is your choice to dismiss the greatest historian of all...a flawed choice if you do.
Herodotus, while praising the democracy of Athens and the Greeks, testifies to the comparative purity of Persian lives, their honesty and heroism in war, the simplicity of their habits, to their industry and thrift in struggling with the natural obstacles of poor soil and difficult terrain and to their love of agricultural pursuits, etc.
A Persian always stays calm... I am fine!
Well, I have read his book on Salamis battle 10 times, I guess! ( Check my profile for my name )
For instance one of his biggest lies about Persians is that Xerxes lashed the waters of Black Sea... You know that Water, Fire and Sun are sacred for the Persians.
They never did this!
And I will try to find a critic book on Herodotus lies written by an Iranian professor living in Europe.
We had Persian historians and Books but all of them destroyed by Arabs during their invasion 1400 yrs ago so it is hard for Persians to prove what is true.
Herodotus, while praising the democracy of Athens and the Greeks, testifies to the comparative purity of Persian lives, their honesty and heroism in war, the simplicity of their habits, to their industry and thrift in struggling with the natural obstacles of poor soil and difficult terrain and to their love of agricultural pursuits, etc.
Herodotus also praised the Persian postal network and, with that praise, was the originator of the motto of the U.S. Postal Service.
"Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. (Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 98) ".