In the Iliad Thersites and Vulcan furnish comedy, one to the mortals, the other to the gods.

There is too much nature and originality in the Greek tragedy for there not to be an occasional touch of comedy in it.

For example, to cite only what we happen to recall, the scene between Menelaus and the portress of the palace.

_( Helen_, Act I), and the scene of the Phrygian _( Orestes,_ Act IV) The Tritons, the Satyrs, the Cyclops are grotesque, Polyphemus is a terrifying, Silenus a farcical grotesque.
But one feels that this part of the art is still in its infancy.

The epic, which at this period imposes its form on everything, the epic weighs heavily upon it and stifles it.