Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2016 9) 1067-1073 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82-2 Artistic Interpretation of Amphitryon Story in Dramas By J. Giraudoux and P. Hacks Tatiana S. Nipa* and Vladislav E. Biktimirov Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 12.01.2016, received in revised form 24.02.2016, accepted 15.03.2016 The present article studies the peculiarities of artistic perception of the classical story of Amphitryon in plays by J. Giraudoux and P. Hacks. <...> The myth of this Theban commander has been interpreted plenty of times (by Plautus, Moliиre, Dryden, Kleist, Giraudoux, Kaiser, Hacks) during the development of foreign literature. <...> In different epochs, this motif attracted authors with more than just dynamic intrigue and the comic twins situation, but also with the opportunities it provides to raise some general philosophic and ontological issues. <...> In the 20th century remarkable for the intensive technical development and powerful social and political cataclysms, the writers of the new generation turned to the old story again. <...> The comparative analysis of dramas by Giraudoux and Hacks is a way to reveal similarities and differences in the perception of the mythological material explained both by the time when the dramas were written and by the peculiarities of the world outlook and aesthetical principles of the given authors. <...> Introduction Classical mythology takes an exceptional place in Western European literature. <...> The story of this divine hero appealed to authors of different epochs, and the deepest interest has always been expressed not to the well-known labours of Heracles, but the story of his birth from the union of mortal Alcmene and the Thunderer Zeus (or Jupiter). <...> In the new age the plot was interpreted in works by Jean Rotrou (Les Deux Sosies, 1638), Jean Tatiana S. Nipa and Vladislav E. Biktimirov. <...> Artistic Interpretation of Amphitryon Story in Dramas By J. Giraudoux. <...> Baptiste Moliиre (Amphitryon, 1668), John Dryden (Amphitryon: or, the two Socias, 1690), Heinrich von Kleist (Amphitryon, 1807). <...> Until the 19th century, the writers aspired, fi rst of all, to create a dynamic intrigue, staking on the exciting plot (Plautus, Moliиre, Dryden); but in the age of Romanticism and the developed interest to the inner world of the character, it was the relationships of the characters and psychological motives of their behaviour that happened to be in the centre of the author’s attention. <...> Thus, for example <...>