Homo Romanus is a textbook for teaching of Latin language and ancient culture aimed at higher grades of secondary schools. It consists of two parts, which facilitates its use as an advanced course as well as at a basic level with fewer hours of instruction (using only part 1). Each part is divided into 5 thematic modules (moduli). Each module contains 5 lessons (lectiones) and an additional recap unit (repetitio). The course includes also a Latin-Polish glossary and an appendix on grammar.

The team of authors who are experienced educators offers to the students a modern Latin textbook using the same method as in teaching modern languages. It’s layout is deliberate, logical, and clear; the book is colourful (which makes studying and memorization more attractive, for example in the case of tables of conjugation) and well illustrated with carefully selected resources concerning ancient culture, including photographs or engravings. The modules in the first volume explore various human activities and are entitled Homo viator, Homo fabulosus, Homo ludens, Homo civis and Homo miles. Each lesson features a text on the theme announced in the title and includes related grammatical and cultural data.

Since the textbook was not designed as a traditional Latin course, it contains a considerable amount of materials on Greek and Roman mythology. It is multidimensional - Latin texts, exercises, and additional cultural texts in Polish, little boxes with fun facts, figures and contextual illustrations displaying works of art, artifacts, or reconstructions. Already on the first pages figures the myth of the founding of Rome rooted in the Trojan history.

Module II Homo fabulosus is especially focused on mythology and rich in ancient and receptive representations. Its lessons are as follows: VI Aeneas, Romulus, Prometheus, VII Europa, VIII De Minerva, IX De oraculis, X De deis and revision De Daedalo et Icaro. Each lesson centers exclusively on its theme, for example the lesson about Minerva contains three passages referring to the goddess - one general about the goddess, one about her dispute with Neptune and the gifting of the olive tree to Athens, and one about her rivalry with Arachne resulting in the transformation of the latter into a spider. The Latin texts passages are accompanied by questions in Latin and two additional texts in Polish - about Minerva and the metamorphoses. The lesson is also enriched with relevant drawings and photographs: a relief of Athena, a sculpture of Athena and Neptune, as well as Athena’s effigies on ‘ancient dollars/euro’ - popular Athenian tetradrachms called ‘owls’. The grammatical material is less abundant - such structure of the lesson allows to learn and consolidate not only linguistic, but also mythological knowledge.

In lesson X about deities, the authors provide a table listing Greek and Roman gods along with their respective roles, as well as illustrated resources aiming at helping the students to write their own stories about the Roman gods.