Published in Languages and Cultures in Tradition

The objective of this article is the analysis of the agón between Helen and Hecuba in “The Trojan Women“ (Τρωάδες) by the Athenian playwright Euripides, through which the intertextuality of the passage with the agón between the Spartan Helen and Hector's widow, Andromache, in Seneca's dramatic piece is indicated. Both playwrights managed to transmit through these dramatic works all the pain and horror that war causes to the vanquished, but also to the victors, since, practically, within a war conflict no one comes out completely unscathed both emotionally and physically.