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Text reads:
Drink me in
Do I give you that warm fuzzy feeling?
Let me embrace you,
Shower you with love,
Bathe you in it,
To have and to hold,
Lover
I like the old style lights that dot the exterior of this former service station-they're original to the building if I'm not mistaken. I also thought it looked cool right above the old Coke machine.
I was slouched pretty far down on the couch, wasn't I? Oh well - at least my fingernails were clean.
A corner cafe on Rue Denoyez in Belleville (Paris, France) tells you exactly what you should do there and comes stocked with all that you need.
The Southern burger, which is basically a tiny chicken-fried steak with pimento cheese spread and green tomato ketchup. It was awesome.
Also, a Krispy Kreme shake and a Grape NeHi. Just in case I needed more calories.
The May 8, 2014 launch of the Drink Up campaign at the Fairmount Water Works, dedicated to promoting drinking water for Philadelphia children. Philadelphia Water partnered with The Food Trust, Partnership for a Healthy America, with guests from HYPE, the 76ers, Mural Arts of Philadelphia, and Wat-aah to encourage Philadelphia students to drink up!
Even apples need to drink water!
Lycian drinking cup, 410–390 BC
Lycia, found at Tell el-Maskhuta, Egypt
Silver, gold and glass
This silver cup is Greek in style and shape. It is decorated with a Greek myth, in which the Trojan prince Paris judged a beauty contest between the goddesses Aphrodite, Athena and Hera. The figures, however, are identified in Lycian writing, with Athena given the name of Lycian deity Malija. Paris’ eastern clothing reflects Greek conventions representing Trojans, but this may have had added significance in Persian-ruled Lycia.*
Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) was a crossroads of Persian, Greek and local cultures. When Cyrus II ‘the Great’ (about 600–530 BC) invaded the region in 546 BC, he captured wealthy kingdoms such as Lydia and Lycia, and the Greek settlements on the Ionian coast.
Although he appointed Persian satraps as governors, some local dynasts were permitted to rule on the king’s behalf. One of these was King Arbinas of Lycia, for whom the Nereid Monument was built.*
From the exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
(May 2023 – Aug 2023)
Between 490 and 479 BC, the Persian empire tried, and failed, to conquer mainland Greece. Many Greeks explained their victory as a triumph of plain living over a ‘barbarian’ enemy weakened by luxury. Ancient objects reveal a different story. The Persian court used luxury as an expression of prestige and power, with a distinctive style that was imitated and adapted across cultural borders, even influencing democratic Athens and, later, the world of Alexander the Great.
'Treasure there was in plenty – tents full of gold and silver furniture… bowls, goblets, and cups, all made of gold'
When Greek soldiers captured the royal command tent of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), they were confronted suddenly and spectacularly by luxury on an unimaginable scale. To many ancient Greek writers, the victories of the small Greek forces against the mighty Persians were a triumph of discipline and restraint over an empire weakened by decadence and excess.
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moved beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explored how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considered how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia's arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explored how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.
The exhibition brought together exquisitely crafted objects in gold, silver and glass, and featured star loans including the extraordinary Panagyurishte Treasure from Bulgaria. Whether coveted as objects of prestige or disparaged as signs of decadence, the beauty of these Persian, Greek and Hellenistic luxuries shaped the political landscape of Europe and Asia in the first millennium BC – and their legacy persists in our attitudes to luxury today.
[*British Musem]
Taken in the British Museum