The House of Atreus

Aeschylus says in a famous fragment, “god plants an aitia (responsibility) in a man whom he wants to destroy a house entirely.”

In The Oresteia these men are “cursed, their lives are an inherited disease, a miasma that threatens the health of their community and forces them, relentlessly, to commit their father’s crimes”.

Political discourse is “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable”.

With the madness of doom “we embalm ourselves for burial and take our coffins to the polling station”.

“Heaven and earth go about their changes.”

“Nothing can make the current return to its source.”