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The Lost Commentaries of Julia Agrippina
A novel, presented as the recovered private commentaries of Julia Agrippina — daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero.
Tacitus really did read her memoirs. He really did cite them, once. They really are lost. Everything else here is invention.
A 27-part audio serial · Episode one out now
A work of fiction. Julia Agrippina left no memoir and there is no manuscript.
A documentary about a book that should not exist
Seven episodes on the recovery of Agrippina's commentaries: a sentence in Tacitus, a codex in a provincial collection, a palaeographer who will not commit, and a statue in Rome whose head was borrowed.
The companion to Augusta. Start here if you want the mystery before the book.
Seven episodes · All out now
A work of fiction. The manuscript, its discovery and the people who found it are invented.
The Letter-Book of Antonia Caenis
The second book of the sequence, presented as the letter-book and late dictation of Antonia Caenis — freedwoman and secretary, who really lived, who really was kept by the emperor Vespasian in the place of an almost lawful wife, and whose freedman really did set up a stone to her.
Read in full, in nineteen episodes, by the two hands that made the book.
A 19-part audio serial · Episode one out now · New episodes Mondays and Thursdays
A work of fiction. The letter-book of Antonia Caenis does not exist.