On the other hand, was the Eutychis graffito a real advert at all? We can’t rule out the possibility that it was simply a malicious daubing, in a way familiar from subway graffiti today. The Greek satirical writer Lucian, writing in his Dialogues of the Courtesans in the 2nd century CE, mentioned that graffiti could be used as a joke, to mislead or to stir up trouble between lovers. Maybe Eutychis was a real Greek girl, perhaps even with sweet ways, but she need not have been a prostitute or even a slave. A rejected suitor or jilted lover might have written it in a place that she, and those who knew her, would see it. Perhaps this implies she did have some kind of connection with the House of the Vettii, but we cannot say for certain if she was a house-slave there.

I was thinking this the whole article!

The old school version of:

For a good time sweet ways, visit Eutychis’

From a spiteful ex lol

What a read, a bit long, but it was interesting, thanks for sharing!

Ah Pompeii and its graffiti. For all the tech, people and their political problems as well are still the same.

Appreciate the post. Learned something new.