Ruling the Catastrophic Sea: Roman Law and the Gains of a Utopic Mediterranean

• Autores: Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz
• Localización: The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception / coord. por Hamish Williams, Ross Clare, 2022, ISBN 9781800854239, págs. 101-120
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The dichotomy between the secure land and the savage or catastrophic sea seems to be one of the oldest metaphors for life, as exemplified in Blumenberg’s famous essay on shipwrecks. Blumenberg based his study on the fact that, at some level, we have all witnessed the wrecks of others, while standing in safety and knowing that there is nothing we can do to help, remaining fixed – whether comfortably or uncomfortably – in our ambiguous role as spectators. However, the necessities of exchange and trade as well as the need to harvest the sea have forced humans to live and...