The poetic ocean in Mare Liberum
The poetic ocean in Mare Liberum
This essay traces the effect of literary quotation in Hugo Grotius’s Mare Liberum (The Free Sea) (1609). It places this reading in the context of broader legal, political and historical debates over the entailments of this famous text, and particularly considers the impact of these inter-textualities on Grotius’s arguable secularism and debated imperialism. The essay suggests that Grotius’s deployment of lines and scenes from Roman poetry and drama—by Lucretius, Vergil, Seneca and Ovid— articulate an elliptical, residually-moral vision of the ocean that troubles his legal thesis on the freedom of the seas.
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Jones, Stephanie
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27 June 2011
Jones, Stephanie
19fbdd53-fdd0-43ad-9203-7462e5f658c6
Jones, Stephanie
(2011)
The poetic ocean in Mare Liberum.
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Ben-Dor, Oren
(ed.)
Law and Art: Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics.
Abingdon, GB.
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This essay traces the effect of literary quotation in Hugo Grotius’s Mare Liberum (The Free Sea) (1609). It places this reading in the context of broader legal, political and historical debates over the entailments of this famous text, and particularly considers the impact of these inter-textualities on Grotius’s arguable secularism and debated imperialism. The essay suggests that Grotius’s deployment of lines and scenes from Roman poetry and drama—by Lucretius, Vergil, Seneca and Ovid— articulate an elliptical, residually-moral vision of the ocean that troubles his legal thesis on the freedom of the seas.
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Published date: 27 June 2011
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ISBN: 9780415560214
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