The Classical Museum
A Journal of Philology, and of Ancient History and Literature

This short-lived journal (1844–50), edited by Leonhard Schmitz (1807–90), illuminates the development of Classics as a specialist discipline.

Leonhard Schmitz (Edited by)

9781108057745, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

448 pages, 2 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.57 kg

Born near Aachen, Leonhard Schmitz (1807–90) studied at the University of Bonn, from which he received his PhD, before marrying an Englishwoman and becoming a naturalised British citizen. Made famous by the 1844 publication of his translation of Niebuhr's Lectures on the History of Rome, he became rector of the Royal High School, Edinburgh, where he taught Alexander Graham Bell. He also briefly tutored the future Edward VII (and he had previously taught Prince Albert in Bonn). This short-lived quarterly journal, which Schmitz founded and edited between 1844 and 1850, focused exclusively on aspects of classical antiquity - in contrast to the more general literary reviews that were common in the period. It illuminates the development of Classics as a specialist discipline as well as contemporary intellectual links between Britain and Germany. This second volume was published in 1845.

Notice
1. The Hellenics of Xenophon
2. On the signification of 'psyche' and 'eidolon' in the Iliad and Odyssey
3. Observations on the provincial word 'songle'
4. On the rivers of Susiana
5. Des Sophokles Antigone, griechisch und deutsch
6. What city does Herodotus mean by Cadytis
7. The Cambridge edition of Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis
8. On the rhythm of ancient Greek music
9. Miscellaneous papers
10. Notices of recent publications
11. Lists of English and foreign philological publications
12. On Cyclopean remains in central Italy
13. On the chronology of the Horatian poems
14. On the Apology of Socrates
15. On an Etruscan city recently discovered
16. On the study of Sanscrit
17. The Licinian rogation
18. Miscellanies
19. Notices of recent publications
20. Lists of English and foreign philological publications
21. Ueber die Stelle des Varro von den Liciniern
22. On the particles 'hopos' and 'hos an' with a conjunctive and optative
23. Was dancing an element of the Greek chorus
24. On the sculptured groups in the pediments of the Parthenon
25. On English grammars
26. Notices of recent publications
27. Lists of recent philological publications.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]