National audienceThe characters in Euripides' Trojan Women evoke different places in the city of Troy, which they describe as paradoxical places of memory. Indeed, a commemorative journey takes place on stage, when the characters, by naming places, also summon the memory of the crimes that took place there. Their traumatic memory sets the bodies in motion and provokes cries of despair. However, only the power of the word keeps these places alive, and the victory of the Greeks dooms them to destruction: the characters are already excluded from the city, and the dissolution of the city also jeopardizes the survival of these places in the collective memory. Our study, mixing dramaturgical and philological analysis, shows how the spatiality of ...