Augusta: The Lost Commentaries of Julia Agrippina https://pbmills.com Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/augusta-the-lost-commentaries-of-julia-agrippina AUGUSTA is a novel by P.B. Mills, read in full. It is presented as the recovered private commentaries of Julia Agrippina — daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero. The manuscript does not exist. Tacitus really did read her memoirs, and really did cite them once, and they really are lost. Everything else here is invention.Twenty-seven episodes. A new one each week. Series guide, maps, and family tree available for free download at pbmills.com. © P.B. Mills Publishing 05032cd4-41ea-5207-8397-50c9f7352bb1 yes Trailer en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:00:23 -0600 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:02:41 -0600 https://img.transistorcdn.com/WM7CWMEIZGJHDWJOtWdntvERV02_ZNr1lOCLAZsiPDw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xZDhh/Y2Q0MjBmNjIxYWZl/MGJmYTljYjBmZGZm/YTAyOS5wbmc.jpg Augusta: The Lost Commentaries of Julia Agrippina https://pbmills.com serial P.B. Mills AUGUSTA is a novel by P.B. Mills, read in full. It is presented as the recovered private commentaries of Julia Agrippina — daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero. The manuscript does not exist. Tacitus really did read her memoirs, and really did cite them once, and they really are lost. Everything else here is invention.Twenty-seven episodes. A new one each week. Series guide, maps, and family tree available for free download at pbmills.com. AUGUSTA is a novel by P.B. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics P.B. Mills hello@pbmills.com No No Trailer Trailer trailer 92a0d15d-cb8e-414d-8266-5b3c7c3af5f8 https://share.transistor.fm/s/7cce1a8e AUGUSTA is a novel by P.B. Mills, read in full and presented as the recovered private commentaries of Julia Agrippina — daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero. Twenty-seven episodes; a new one each week.

A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> AUGUSTA is a novel by P.B. Mills, read in full and presented as the recovered private commentaries of Julia Agrippina — daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero. Twenty-seven episodes; a new one each week.

A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 51 A first hearing of Augusta: The Lost Commentaries of Julia Agrippina. A first hearing of Augusta: The Lost Commentaries of Julia Agrippina. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics No I. The Roll on the Table 1 1 I. The Roll on the Table full 4a2ef01c-87f9-4258-b09f-79b0f8972570 https://share.transistor.fm/s/302cc0a0 There is a sentence in Tacitus that nobody reads. It sits in the middle of one of the most famous passages in Latin literature, and it says that he found a private scene between the emperor Tiberius and Agrippina’s mother in a book written by Agrippina herself.

She wrote a memoir. Pliny the Elder read it too, and cited it. Then it stops. This first episode is the case for the book that follows: the borrowed head in the Centrale Montemartini, a vanished dedication at Nîmes read from its nail holes, and what it means that everything we possess is what somebody chose to keep.

Source: front matter.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> There is a sentence in Tacitus that nobody reads. It sits in the middle of one of the most famous passages in Latin literature, and it says that he found a private scene between the emperor Tiberius and Agrippina’s mother in a book written by Agrippina herself.

She wrote a memoir. Pliny the Elder read it too, and cited it. Then it stops. This first episode is the case for the book that follows: the borrowed head in the Centrale Montemartini, a vanished dedication at Nîmes read from its nail holes, and what it means that everything we possess is what somebody chose to keep.

Source: front matter.

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]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:53:51 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1730 The translator opens the roll: what survives of Agrippina, what does not, and why one sentence in Tacitus is the reason for all of this. The translator opens the roll: what survives of Agrippina, what does not, and why one sentence in Tacitus is the reason for all of this. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics No II. Born Among Eagles 2 2 II. Born Among Eagles full d65f20b4-16b6-460b-929c-e5a0cfe4a75d https://share.transistor.fm/s/52fb5a62 Sostrata has weighted the corners with a lamp, an inkpot and two of her rings, because the roll is on the table between them and it is not clean.

She has been reminded that she is to begin with her birth — 6 November AD 15, at a frontier camp on the Rhine. She is not going to begin with her birth. She begins instead with the men who gave her the name, because everything that follows is a quarrel with the filing.

Source: chapter 1.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Sostrata has weighted the corners with a lamp, an inkpot and two of her rings, because the roll is on the table between them and it is not clean.

She has been reminded that she is to begin with her birth — 6 November AD 15, at a frontier camp on the Rhine. She is not going to begin with her birth. She begins instead with the men who gave her the name, because everything that follows is a quarrel with the filing.

Source: chapter 1.

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]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:37:51 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 4337 She is asked to begin with her birth in a frontier camp on the Rhine. She begins instead with the men who gave her the name. She is asked to begin with her birth in a frontier camp on the Rhine. She begins instead with the men who gave her the name. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics No III. The East Took My Father 3 3 III. The East Took My Father full e20a9338-69cb-4803-9283-980f22ce9ce2 https://share.transistor.fm/s/a44af4b9 The Senate grants her father an authority above the provincial governors and sends him east. He does not come back.

What his daughter has of it is not grief but the household’s accounting: who was in the room, whose hand wrote it down, which version was kept and what the record was made to say afterwards. She was three.

Source: chapter 2.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> The Senate grants her father an authority above the provincial governors and sends him east. He does not come back.

What his daughter has of it is not grief but the household’s accounting: who was in the room, whose hand wrote it down, which version was kept and what the record was made to say afterwards. She was three.

Source: chapter 2.

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]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:38:28 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 4914 Germanicus is sent east with an authority above the governors, and does not come back. Germanicus is sent east with an authority above the governors, and does not come back. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics No IV. The Woman With the Urn 4 4 IV. The Woman With the Urn full 9dc8c449-eea2-4488-a84c-d6ba406600b7 https://share.transistor.fm/s/ecab7664 Her mother carries the ashes up the Appian Way, and the crowd learns what a widow can be. Julia is four.

Source: chapter 3.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Her mother carries the ashes up the Appian Way, and the crowd learns what a widow can be. Julia is four.

Source: chapter 3.

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]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:57:18 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 3547 Her mother carries the ashes up the Appian Way, and the crowd learns what a widow can be. Julia is four. Her mother carries the ashes up the Appian Way, and the crowd learns what a widow can be. Julia is four. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics No V. The Empty Chairs 5 5 V. The Empty Chairs full 136ef926-01ca-4631-a778-7c7b0bf7578e https://share.transistor.fm/s/e0233a68 Sejanus removes the family one chair at a time, and the household learns to count them.

Source: chapter 4.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Sejanus removes the family one chair at a time, and the household learns to count them.

Source: chapter 4.

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]]> Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 3052 Sejanus removes the family one chair at a time, and the household learns to count them. Sejanus removes the family one chair at a time, and the household learns to count them. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics No VI. A Woman Injured 6 6 VI. A Woman Injured full 1cea9b39-e7be-4379-89f0-2b0f1925cbe5 https://share.transistor.fm/s/8186772a Her mother is taken. Julia is thirteen, and there is a red-bearded bridegroom waiting.

Source: chapters 5–6.

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]]> Her mother is taken. Julia is thirteen, and there is a red-bearded bridegroom waiting.

Source: chapters 5–6.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 4440 Her mother is taken. Julia is thirteen, and there is a red-bearded bridegroom waiting. Her mother is taken. Julia is thirteen, and there is a red-bearded bridegroom waiting. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics No VII. Livia's Last Tablet 7 7 VII. Livia's Last Tablet full ea9e5b6a-72c8-4694-8d31-92d721eab532 https://share.transistor.fm/s/4d15d617 Livia dies, and leaves behind a tablet that the household would rather she had not.

Source: chapter 7.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Livia dies, and leaves behind a tablet that the household would rather she had not.

Source: chapter 7.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1955 Livia dies, and leaves behind a tablet that the household would rather she had not. Livia dies, and leaves behind a tablet that the household would rather she had not. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics No VIII. The House of Ahenobarbus 8 8 VIII. The House of Ahenobarbus full 6d1794f2-e460-420e-a5cc-2aa998d13604 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9bc7dca5 Married into the Domitii, she learns a household from its service wing. Sejanus falls.

Source: chapters 8–10.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Married into the Domitii, she learns a household from its service wing. Sejanus falls.

Source: chapters 8–10.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 5101 Married into the Domitii, she learns a household from its service wing. Sejanus falls. Married into the Domitii, she learns a household from its service wing. Sejanus falls. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics No IX. The Sun Before the Ground 9 9 IX. The Sun Before the Ground full f2817ffe-c2de-4528-ae4d-0fb0aa3aee2e https://share.transistor.fm/s/53ff7e6f Eleven letters on one table, and an old emperor on an island taking his time.

Source: chapters 11–12.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Eleven letters on one table, and an old emperor on an island taking his time.

Source: chapters 11–12.

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A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.

]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:00:00 -0600 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 3347 Eleven letters on one table, and an old emperor on an island taking his time. Eleven letters on one table, and an old emperor on an island taking his time. Agrippina, ancient Rome, Roman history, Nero, Claudius, Tacitus, Julio-Claudian, historical fiction, audio drama, audiobook, Roman Empire, classics No