Add to ORKGこの論文は国立情報学研究所の学術雑誌公開支援事業により電子化されました。Euripides the tragedian is often called the inventor of European comedy. Indeed the plays he wrote in the last years of his career, Iphigenia among the Taurians. Helen and Ion, include most of the elements which were to become the stock features of comedies of Menander, Plautus, Shakespeare. Moliere, Oscar Wilde and even Joe Orton of the present day. How can a tragedy be presented as a tragedy but be appreciated as a comedy? I will try to examine the dramatic art of Euripides as shown in Ion, a play which, though an entry in the tragic competition at the festival of Dionysus, shows a treatment of situation and character differing subtly from the tragic norm and introducing a new attitude to human nature a...