Ten years of war between two civilizations: Greeks and Trojans. The love affair between Helen and Paris leads to the fall of Troy, burned to the ground after a decade of conflict. The Greeks demand the death of Astyanax, the son of Hector and Andromache. Hecuba is taken prisoner. The story is well known. Between myths, heartbreaks, and the rewritings of historians—what matters to us in Trojan Women?

War has never been absent from the world, but in recent years, from Kyiv to Palestine, several conflicts and flashpoints have escalated. The love of war, of violence, the gas shortages, the threat of the bomb. The love of the bomb, as Dr. Strangelove might say in Kubrick’s film. War is not the shock. What interests us is the barbaric, violent gesture — and its root. With Seneca, we may once again question the place to which we relegate the Other, the unknown.