Abstract
Staged during the Peloponnesian War, Euripides' tragedy "Andromache" fosters debate on power relations established between legitimate wife and concubine, women and men, and also Spartan and Trojan women. The purpose of this article is to study these relations of feminine power in classical Athens. The power struggle between Hermíone and Andromache is based on marriage and the status of legitimate wife, motherhood and the areas of activity of Greek women. There is also a conflict of power between the culture of the Greeks and that of the non-Greeks, referring to discussions about the concept of ethnicity.
Keywords:
Gender; ethnicity; Classical Athens; Greek theater