DeusExMachina

*A man wearing a toga and badly constructed stage wings is lowered, somewhat jerkily, from the ceiling*

True.  Cynical me might suggest that tragedy was invented because the winch mechanism broke one day and the good guys never got rescued, but I suspect it's actually the other way around, tragedies made palatable by taking on a happy ending.  --Vitenka  (Although all of this is a bit wrong, since the plays were to do with rituals and worship at least as much as they were with drama)

The End

That's poetic interpretation, not literal.  {shrug}

You do realise that they don't teach children latin at all any more, right?

I learned Latin at senior school. Sat a GCSE in it. I think they still teach it - SunKitten

Oh, there is an option.  But the number of schools which offer the option is rapidly shrinking.  If they taught English properly I wouldn't really mind, since not that many people need to go on to study the classics in their original languages.  My meaning was that it's hardly a universal subject.  --Vitenka

Ah. You said 'don't teach latin at all' - SunKitten, nitpicking :)

Lack of understanding of grammar and inability to speak latin, primarily - I would have thought.  --Vitenka

Also inability to do crosswords.