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)

9781108057752, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

482 pages, 4 b/w illus. 1 colour illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.61 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 third volume was published in 1846.

Notice
1. On the use of the terms 'acanthus', 'acanthion', etc. in the ancient classics
2. Aeschyli Supplices
3. On the geography of a part of the retreat of the ten thousand Greeks
4. On the existence of a nation bearing the name of 'Seres' or of a country called 'Serica' or 'Terra Serica'
5. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
6. Remarks on Professor Long's paper on the Licinian law
7. On the passage in Appian's Civil Wars which relates to the Licinian law
8. Notices of recent publications
9. On the age of Babrius
10. Baalbec, Palmyra, and the extreme north-eastern bounds of the land assigned to the Israelites
11. Professor Voemel's defence of the genuineness of the documents in Demosthenes's speech on the crown
12. Ptolemy's knowledge of Arabia
13. The Antigone of Sophocles and the Foreign Quarterly Review
14. The asylum of Romulus
15. Beckeri Topographia urbis Romae
16. Miscellanies
17. Literary intelligence
18. Notices of recent publications
19. Lists of recent philological publications
20. On the choral dancing of the Greeks
21. The Quarterly Review and Greek lexicons
22. On the guardianship accounts of Demosthenes
23. Suburbs of the Levitical cities
24. On a European notation for extra European sounds
25. The practice of writing English in classic metres
26. On Victorinus
27. On the Latin word 'immo' or 'imo'
28. Comparative etymology
29. Miscellanies
30. Notices of recent publications
31. Lists of recent philological publications
32. On the topography of Rome
33. On the pronunciation of Greek
34. On the Leges annales of the Romans
35. The youth of Jason renewed by Medeia
36. Ethnology and philology
37. Notices of recent publications
38. Lists of recent philological publications.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]