What did Greek speakers in the Roman empire do when they wanted to learn Latin? They used Latin-learning materials containing authentic enjoyable vignettes about daily life in the ancient world - shopping banking going to the baths having fights being scolded making excuses - very much like the dialogues in some of today''s foreign-language textbooks. These stories provide priceless insight into daily life in the Roman empire as well as into how Latin was learned at that period and they were all