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The seminar will continue with a reading of Ulpian's On the Duties of the Proconsul , a kind of guide that allows us to virtually see the Roman provincial governor in action, and to understand how his actions were bound by the bonds of law. The seminar …

The lecture explores how Roman jurists, who were also writers, used metaphors to express and even forge their concepts, some of which are still ours today. Metaphors are a cognitive matrix, a way of thinking, not just speaking. Body, head, ears, hands, …