Found: Latin "textbook" with comics

I feel like this is going to be a long shot even for this amazing group, but when I was in college (circa 2005) in Michigan, USA, I took a Latin class, and our text books were paperback books, maybe a quarter of an inch thick, and each chapter had a vocabulary list and then a comic for various pages using the vocabulary presented.

Was this a college level book or a children's book? Was it based on classical Latin literature and myths, a translation of a modern graphic novel, or an original story?

Here's a couple of options that fit some of the parameters.

This series came out about the right time (2003) but is more an illustrated text than a comic: Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, Pars 1: Familia Romana.

If it was more a true children's story, this one might fit: Ecce Caecilia et Verus by Dr. Frances R. Spielhagen. Couldn't find a LibraryThing listing.

>2 saskia17: It was definitely "textbookish" in that it had lessons. Was it college level? Well, it didn't feel college level because it felt more natural (due to the comics). It was Roman people living their normal Roman lives in ancient times.

It's definitely not the second one you listed.
I looked up the first one on Amazon to see an inside sample, and I'm pretty sure that's not it either because there are no comics, just a play-like script. (But, again, it's been 20 years. I couldn't say if EVERY chapter had a comic--although I think so--or not, and Amazon only gives a sample of one chapter.)

Thank you for your help, though!

one possibility is the Cambridge Latin Course - names of some of the usual characters include Caecilius, Metella, Grumio, Metella, Clemens and Quintus

My high school in that period used Ecce Romani which told the narrative of a family (kids named Cornelia and Marcus) and I think little illustrations. Not sure if this touchstone links to the same editions I used, but googling brought up the covers I remember.

I didn't use this book, but Essential Latin had little cartoons illustrating the vocabulary also. Here's a preview on google books that shows them: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Essential_Latin/yX5AjtxY45kC?hl=en&gbpv...

I'm glad you all read good literature and aren't familiar with Sunday newspaper comic strips and the progress of panels in telling a story. XD (The examples in Essential Latin did have me laughing, though.)

It's not Cambridge, Ecce Romani (although the name sounds vaguely familiar, but the interior and the cover aren't), nor Essential Latin. Thank you for your help, though. The process of elimination is slower than identification, but slower is still progress, and I really appreciate it.

What about the Oxford Latin Course? You can see a sample of volume 3 here: https://books.google.com/books?id=g3Q4ciaEwFQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ox...

>7 saskia17:
I am about 99% sure that this is it! Thank you so much. I only used Volumes 1 and 2; so I looked those up, but they didn't have samples available. The covers look right, though. And the content in Volume 3 looks comparable. (I didn't remember the cultural bit in English in each lesson, but the comic bit definitely has the same sort of illustration I remember.)

I really appreciate this.

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You're welcome! Glad it was the right one.