Dr. Jessica Venner
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And it's very, you know, male oriented.
From a Roman perspective, this is something that a man would do.
To us, in that way, it seems outrageous.
As a modern person, we're obviously like, well, that seems pretty normal, but it absolutely wasn't.
She's putting advertisements outside her property saying, you can rent out my apartments, you can use the Venus baths for discerning people.
So she's trying to get a certain audience.
But we don't know who she is from the sense that she's called Julia Felix.
This is quite a slave, like freedwoman sort of name.
Felix is usually put on the name.
So okay, so she might be a freedwoman.
Julia, she might be from the clan of Julius Caesar's clan.
But then she's saying she's daughter of Spurius, which means that she's not a daughter of this sort of... She can't claim...