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Dr. Jessica Venner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
755 total appearances

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The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

That's just brilliant.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

So we've got two business women that we've already mentioned that are really tailoring their businesses to what people want at that time.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

You know, Julia converted the baths after the earthquake.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

Also, we've got Ambrickia who's going into business after her freeing.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

It's just fascinating.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

So I created around Umbrichia her family.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

I wanted to depict a working family in the city, a poor family.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

And I'd been studying this house called the Shop House Garden.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

If you walk past it, you would never notice it.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

It's not labelled or anything like that.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

It's very, very unassuming.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

But you walk in, it's got one room, then another room at the back.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

They would have had an apartment upstairs.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

And then you've got a huge garden next to it.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

And again, it was one of those that had been the...

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

Buildings had been demolished.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

They created a vineyard with vegetable plots.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

And the most lovely part of this was that at the back of this garden in the corner, there was a living area for the family with children's toys, cooking pots, a little niche for a shrine.

The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii

It looks like they had an awning over them.