The cover of Book 1 of the Cambridge Latin Course UK 5th edition

Book I

We're travelling back almost 2000 years to AD 79, a time when the Romans controlled much of Europe. The magnificent Italian city of Rome is the centre of the Roman Empire and 125 miles to the south of the capital are the beautiful Bay of Naples, the slumbering volcano Mount Vesuvius, and the prosperous Roman town of Pompeii.

Let's explore Pompeii, meet some of its citizens and investigate the Roman world.
A bronze head of Caecilius
Stage 1
A reconstructed interior of a Roman bedroom, decorated with wall paintings
Stage 2
A Roman wall-painting depicting a harbour
Stage 3
A view through an archway of the forum and Temple of Jupiter at Pompeii
Stage 4
A Roman wall-painting depicting a theatrical mask
Stage 5
A stone relief probably showing manumission ceremony, with a magistrate and two formerly enslaved people
Stage 6
A mosaic of a skeleton butler, holding a wine jug in each hand, found in a triclinium in Pompeii
Stage 7
The top surface of a Roman clay lamp depicting two armed gladiators
Stage 8
The entrance hall of a Roman bathhouse, with a marble floor, basin, bust of Apollo and two columns
Stage 9
A marble statue of an elderly Greek teaching
Stage 10
A marble statue of a man, Marcus Holconius Rufus, in military dress
Stage 11
A painting of Mount Vesuvius erupting in 1779, with people fleeing from settlements in the foreground
Stage 12