It's all intertwined

It is difficult, of course, to think of politics in the ancient world, since the ancients did not distinguish between politics and things such as religion or family life. The dichotomies that have become ours in the late-modern West were not theirs. When we ask them what we think of as political questions, their replies immediately range beyond the shape of our modern questions and into the full breadth of ancient life. To be political in this or that way was also to be religious in this or that way and to be a husband or a father—or a wife or a mother (think only of Agrippina!)—or a master or a slave in this or that way, and much else besides.—One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions, 232