#In honor of the holiday, here's a food related anecdote! Happy Thanksgiving to our American subscribers! ________________________ [**For context: Alexander has just received the peaceful surrender of Babylon, and is strolling through the city.**] >[Alexander](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Alexander_the_Great_mosaic.jpg) was scornfully amused by the statutory regulations – inscribed on a brazen pillar in the palace – for [Darius](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Darius_III_of_Persia.jpg)’ breakfast and dinner. These included such items as 100 geese or goslings, 400 bushels of wheaten flour, and a talent’s weight (57.5 lbs) of garlic (Polyaenus 4.3.32). The interpreter perhaps neglected to inform him that this (admittedly extravagant) outlay was for the Great King’s entire palace household and all his retainers. ________________________ **Source:** Green, Peter. “The Lord of Asia.” Alexander of Macedon: 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography. Univ. of California Press, 2005. 303. Print. ________________________ **Further Reading:** [Alexander III of Macedon / Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας (Alexander the Great)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great) [Artashata / Darius III / Codomannus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_III) [Πoλύαινoς (Polyaenus or Polyenus)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyaenus) ___________________________ **If you enjoy this type of content, please consider donating to my [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/HistoryLockeBox)!**