A thematic study of the text of the Trojan Women reveals the wealth of marine pictures. Poseidon, the god of the sea, witnesses the ruin of Troy ; the wooden horse is compared to a vessel. As soon as he is shown into its surrounding walls, the city seems to be contaminated by some harm coming from the open sea. Little by little, the metaphors convert the characters into drifting ships and the Trojan land into a marine area. The poetic processes are coherent and very much elaborated. The picture of Troy burning is not final in the play. Last of all, Euripides describes the ruin of the city, in its tragical aspect, as a definitive flooding of a land which disappears.Une étude thématique du texte des Troyennes révèle l'abondance des images mar...