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This is John Batchel, a conversation with the

author Emma Southon, author of A Rome of One's Own, the Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire.

This is from the empire, Julia Felix. The year is 79 AD, and the place is Pompeii.

Julia Felix is a woman alone who owns property, runs an entertainment and restaurant center

in Pompeii, which was a resort for the Romans.

You know a great deal about it because it's been excavated.

And here, Emma makes it very clear that women had status enough to own their own property and run their own business,

despite the recommendations of fathers and sons and husbands that they do not have that power.

Julia Felix does.

In addition, there's an anecdote about how Julia Felix died.

It was a skeleton found in the middle of the yard of her complex,

clutching gold rings and necklaces.

The belief is that Emma's belief that Julia went back for her gems as Vesuvius was

raining down ash on the city, and she died there 2,000 years ago. Emma Southon, a Rome of

one's own, the life and possibly death of Julia Felix, much more of this tonight, many other women.

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