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An animated cartoon sitcom featuring a family in ancient Rome.
It occurred to me that the title of my daughter's Latin book, "ECCE ROMANI" basically means "Hey Look, It's The Romans!" - which struck me as a good title for a TV sitcom.
In keeping with the Flintstones/Jetsons/Simpsons tradition,
this show would focus on a working-class family, rather than the Caesars and Ciceros - although occasional walkons by a Virgil or Ovid would be a nice touch. Maybe to make it more relevant to today, it should be placed in the Later Empire, when things were starting to fall apart a bit... and everybody was getting worried about those nasty barbarians...
Up Pompeii!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Pompeii [DrBob, Oct 02 2009]
Ever read the Marco Falco novels?
http://www.lindseyd...uk/publications.htm This is the author's official website. [Aristotle, Oct 04 2009]
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(btw: no Animation or Cartoon categories? Or did I miss one?) |
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Categories get created when there's ideas to put in them - if we have a whole bunch of cartoon sitcom ideas, it'll show up. |
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neat concept, maybe a sketch of an episode to give us an idea of the realizac'ion. |
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Could be useful for teaching Latin |
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I could use this in about twenty minutes. Could you have it done by then or estne nixor horribile manis pictororum? |
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[Lurkio] "The prologue..." [/Lurkio] |
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Yes, as one who has used Ecce Romani! to try and learn Latin, I would watch this. English subtitles I presume? |
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I much prefer the somewhat less accurate: "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS". ("People called Romanes they go the house.") |
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I can totally see this as a cartoon. |
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The only thing I can think of offhand that would approach it is the Emperor's New School. |
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// Carry On Cleo. // Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre? |
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I have a whiff of a memory of something resembling this, featuring an eternally bored and sarcastic talking lion. |
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"Mr.Peabody" was the dog, who with his pet boy <name> wandered through time to provide history lessons to kids who weren't paying attention in school. |
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Ah, no, I'm well aware of Sherman and Peabody's adventures with the (original) Wayback Machine. What I'm dimly recalling definitely had a bored, cynical (and somewhat camp?) talking lion, and may or may not have been set in classical Rome. No time travel. |
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