Museum criticum
Or, Cambridge Classical Researches

This early classical journal, collected in two volumes in 1826, illuminates the development of academic journals and classical scholarship.

Charles James Blomfield (Edited by), James Henry Monk (Edited by)

9781108056588, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

590 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm, 0.74 kg

This short-lived (1813–26) classical journal was edited by James Henry Monk (1784–1856) and Charles James Blomfield (1786–1857), who were contemporaries at Trinity College, Cambridge. Both went on to ecclesiastical careers: Monk left his position as Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge to become Dean of Peterborough and subsequently Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, while Blomfeld, who already held the country living of Quarrington in Lincolnshire when the journal was founded, became Bishop of London. Encapsulating the dominant contemporary style of English classical scholarship - the close linguistic analysis of (primarily Greek) texts, as practised by Richard Porson (1759–1808), Monk's predecessor as Regius Professor - the Museum criticum became a rival to The Classical Journal (also reissued in this series) and was collected in two volumes in 1826. Illuminating the early development of academic journals, Volume 1 contains issues 1–4.

Preface
Part I: Sapphonis fragmenta
Tryphonis grammatici opuscula
Notes on the Electra of Sophocles
On certain early Greek historians mentioned by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
On the middle voice of the Greek verb
Bibliographical notice of the editions of Aeschylus
Notices of new classical publications
Part II: Animadversiones quaedam in fragmentorum Sophocleanorum Syllogen Brunckianam
Edmundi Chishull notae in Horatium hactenus ineditae
Carmen antistrophicum ex Aristophanis Lysistrata
Animadversiones quaedam in Euripidis Supplices et Iphig.
Ricardi Bentleii curae novissimae ad Horatium nusquam alias editae
In Philemonis lexicon annotationes quaedam
Notes on the Electra of Sophocles (cont.)
On certain early Greek historians mentioned by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (cont.)
Inscription on one of Dr Clarke's marbles
Venice edition of Callimachus
Porfessor Porson's review of the Parian chronicle
Sapphonis fragmenta (cont.)
Review of new classical publications
Part III: Joannis Miltoni emendationes in Euripidem
Edmundi Chishull notae in Horatium , II
Carmen hexametrum in Mnemosynen
Carmen hexametrum in Phantasiam
Porson's letter to Dalzel
Account of the hippocentaur
Notice relative to Michael Sophianus
Biographical memoir of Josephus Justus Scaliger
Samian inscription
Notes on the Ajax of Sophocles
Nicandri Theriaca, cum emendationibus Bentleii hactenus ineditis
Review of new classical publications
Part IV: Alcaei Mitylenaei fragmenta
Nicandri Theriaca, cum emendationibus Bentleii hactenus ineditis (cont.)
Marasmos, carmen hexametrum
Ars piscatoria, carmen hexametrum
Notes on the Ajax of Sophocles (cont.)
Porson's review of Knight's essay on the Greek alphabet
Josephi Justi Scaligeri epistolae quaedam selectae
Remarks on Greek inscriptions
Syntaxeos Atticae canones Dawesiani XI
Ancient Elean inscription
Porson's inscription for the statue of the Eleusinian Ceres
Review of new classical publications.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]