Dziecko w tragediach Eurypidesa
The child in Euripides’s tragedies

Summary/Abstract: This analysis of Euripides’s tragic poetry identifies its innovativeness in that figures of children take part in the dramatic plot. The author reviews the child characters of these plays – whether they are crucial to the plot or auxiliary to its main thread. The point of reference is, on the one hand, the social function of child in the Old-Greek culture and, on the other, passages from Euripides’s tragedies dealing with the issue of positive and negative aspects of parenthood. The article’s core argument is based upon analysis of children figures suffering from their entanglement in conflict-generating actions of their elders. Not only is the problem of parental love investigated but also, an absolute novelty in the European drama, the one of a small child’s affection for his or her parent.

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