Cults and Mundanities
Cults and Mundanities

Summary/Abstract: If politics means the business of the city (polis), then political theatre is the theatre of public business. But what is public business? For instance, it is public business if there is a hatred or feud that persists in a community across several generations. “That’s why murder moves on to murder / through blood and does not leave alone / the double line of Atreus”—in Euripides’ tragedy Orestes. The most recent murder was committed by Orestes and Electra, who killed their mother and her lover because they in turn had murdered their father.

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