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)

9781108056595, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

720 pages, 2 b/w illus.
21.6 x 4 x 14 cm, 0.9 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 2 contains issues 5–8.

Part V: Annotation in Euripidis Medeam
Josephi Justi Scaligeri epistolae quaedam selectae
Immortalitas animae, carmen hexametrum
Carmen antistrophicum ex Aeschyli Prometheo
Statement of some opinions respecting the Greek accent
On the dramatic representations of the Greeks
On certain early Greek historians mentioned by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (cont.)
Porson's review of Brunck's Aristophanes
On the usage of the word 'pharsos'
Ricardi Bentleii emendationes in Aristophanem hactenus ineditae
Review of new classical publications
Part VI: Extracts of letters and papers relating to the Egyptian inscription of Rosetta
On the dramatic representations of the Greeks (cont.)
Josephi Justi Scaligeri epistolae quaedam selectae
Cartesii Principia, carmen hexametrum
Platonis Principia, carmen hexametrum
Newtoni Systema mundanum, carmen hexametrum
On the language of the Pelasgi
On the Ionic dialect
Illustration of a passage of Callixenus respecting Egyptian architecture
Remarks on the ninth book of the Iliad
Stesichori fragmenta
Annotatio in Euripidis Iphigeniam Tauricam
Review of new classical publications
Part VII: Letters relating to the inscription of Rosetta
Sophronis fragmenta
Alexandri, medici Graeci, anecdoton
Inscription Deliaca
The Chalybes of Xenophon
The caryatides of ancient architecture
Bentleii epistolae
Aeschyli Agamemnonis codex MS Neapolitanus
On the dramatic representations of the Greeks (cont.)
Supposed plagiarisms
E. H. Barker, O.T.N.
Statements of Professor Playfair respecting the University of Cambridge
Memoir of the Rev. Edward Valentine Blomfield, M.A.
Literary intelligence
Part VIII: Letters of Bentley and Bernard
Sophronis Syracusani fragmenta
Greek inscriptions copied in Boeotia
Emendationes in Anthologiam Graecam
Animadversiones in Sapphonis et Alcaei fragmenta
Augusti Boeckhii prolusiones
On the cursive Greek character
Review of Elmsley's and Hermann's editions of The Bacchae
Memoir of Dr James Duport
Index auctorum emendatorum in tom. II.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]