Topics of the month

 Topic of the Month for August 2026: The Volcanalia
 Topic of the Month for July 2026: Caesar's Calendar Reform
 Topic of the Month June 2026: When Decorated Donkeys and Barefoot Women Pilgrimage Through Rome – The Vestalia in June
 Topic of the Month May 2026: Capri’s Sun and the Long Shadow of Augustus
 Topic of the Month April 2026: In Search of Rome’s Origins – Between Legend and Reality
 Topic of the month March 2026: Oscia Modesta, African aristocrat with a love of the Greek language
 Topic of the month February 2026: When supposed security justifies everything, or the day Carthage fell
 Topic of the month January 2026: Emperor by chance. The accession of Claudius

 Topic of the month December 2025: Merry X-Mas! – But why? Christian symbolism in Antiquity and the present time
 Topic of the month November 2025: "3-3-3 at Issus - a fight!" - Alexander the Great and the Battle of Issus
 Topic of the month October 2025: On both sides of power – The life of Galla Placidia
 Topic of the month September 2025: The king is dead, long live the queen. On the death of Seleucus IV.
 Topic of the month August 2025: A bloody dagger and a burning hand – The legend of the Roman national hero Gaius Mucius Scaevola
 Topic of the month July 2025: When the gods were silent - The burning downfall of the Temple of Artemis
 Topic of the month June 2025: Didius Julianus and Septimius Severus - The battle for becoming Emperor in June 193
 Topic of the month May 2025: The angelic emperor at the Council of Nicaea 325
 Topic of the month April 2025: Death came while urinating - How Emperor Caracalla died
 Topic of the month March 2025: Chariot racing and International Women’s Day?
 Topic of the month February 2025: Kissing forbidden! How an emperor forbade kissing
 Topic of the month January 2025: The Nika Uprising

 Topic of the month December 2024: Merry Christmas! ...Or a festival called Saturnalia after all?
 Topic of the month November 2024: From Caesar's soldier to Christ’s soldier
 Topic of the month October 2024: The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD
 Topic of the month September 2024: The decisive battle of Actium
 Topic of the month August 2024: Vacation? Thank the emperor!
 Topic of the month July 2024: The destruction of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus
 Topic of the month June 2024: Matralia
 Topic of the month May 2024: True Crime in the Roman Empire - Locusta as the first female serial killer in history
 Topic of the month April 2024: The Robigalia
 Topic of the month March 2024: Dynamis
 Topic of the month February 2024: The death and succession of Septimius Severus
 Topic of the month January 2024: January

 Topic of the month December 2023: An innovative advertising figure - the Bishop of Myra
 Topic of the month November 2023: The Catilinarian Conspiracy
 Topic of the month October 2023: Agrippina maior - victim and protagonist in the dispute over the imperial throne
 Topic of the month September 2023: Drusus the Younger - a murder in the intrigue for power? The 2000th anniversary of the death of the younger Drusus
 Topic of the month August 2023: The Roman calendar
 Topic of the month July 2023: The great fire of Rome. Emperor Nero, an arsonist?
 Topic of the month June 2023: The death of Emperor Nero
 Topic of the month May 2023: An ancient ascension?
 Topic of the month April 2023: Marcus Salvius Otho