He started a fad for Greek sources with his play Joseph, and John Milton spoke highly of his play Adam in Exile.
He started a fad for Greek sources with his play Joseph, and John Milton spoke highly of his play Adam in Exile. His religious works include The Truth of the Christian Religion and Notes on the Books of the Gospels, and he also defended the seizure of the Santa Catarina in another book. His political activities got him imprisoned in Loevestein by Maurice of Nassau, but he escaped by hiding in a trunk of books and was able to write a work based on the ideas of Alberico Gentili. In that book, he explained the modern ideas of eminent domain, freedom of the seas, and extraterritoriality. For 10 points, name this writer who listed allowable reasons for war in On the Law of War and Peace, earning him the epithet "father of international law."
He started a fad for Greek sources with his play Joseph, and John Milton spoke highly of his play Adam in Exile.
Hugo {Grotius} [or Huigh de {Groot}]