the genius of the age

It's the scenes of apocalypse that stand out in his plays. Mostly he wrote
reruns of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles three hundred years after the
fact, but those scenes of apocalypse stand out. Almost show a desire that
it be so. And when we look at Roman literature, we grow somewhat curious
about the relative lack of significant, original work. But the genius of the
Romans lay elsewhere. In their empire building, their system of law and
order, their engineering. And, besides, by his time, the main entertainment
was feeding the Christians to the lions. How can even Euripides work play in
such a society of the barbarous spectacle? And he himself was finally told
by his pupil, Nero, to open his veins, which he did according to the (by
then) custom, which involved a final gathering of friends and family on an
evening.

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