Dr. Jessica Venner

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755 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 26 Apr

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The Ancients · The Last Days of Pompeii · 26 Apr 2026 podcast

So we know a lot about her.

Exactly.

And it's very, you know, male oriented.

outward.

From a Roman perspective, this is something that a man would do.

It's outrageous.

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.

I love her so much.

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.

Okay, that's important.

So maybe she came from Rome.

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...

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