One of my favorite fables is about a boat engine that keeps failing. No matter what they do, it stalls out. They've spent days on this. /1
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Greek, Roman, Egyptian or Babylonian? Either way, a talent of grain is between 25 and 32.3 kg, so not really comparable to 1 USD.
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also, talents usually are amounts of gold or silver, not grain, and A LOT. 1 talent of silver was 9 manyears, or a trireme crew for 1 month.
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