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)

9781108057769, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

488 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.62 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 fourth volume was published in 1847.

Notice
1. On the topography of Rome
2. On the conclusion of the Iliad
3. Some account of Greek and Roman portraits
4. On the particles 'hopos' and 'hos an' with a conjunctive and optative
5. On the Attic Dionysia
6. Literary intelligence
7. Miscellanies
8. Notices of recent publications
9. Lists of recent philological publications
10. On the topography of Rome
11. The Egypt of Herodotus
12. On the Roman festival of the Agonalia
13. Some enquiry into the myths of Io
14. The religion of the Romans
15. Ethnology and philology
16. Miscellanies
17. Notices of recent publications
18. Lists of recent philological publications
19. On the cause of Ovid's exile
20. The zoology of Homer and Hesiod (1)
21. The British expeditions of C. Julius Caesar
22. On the use of the word 'aristokratia'
23. An attempt to ascertain the positions of the Athenian lines and Syracusan defences
24. Miscellanies
25. Notices of recent publications
26. Lists of recent philological publications
27. Illustrations of Latin lyrical metres
28. Examination of Eichhorn's opinion
29. The zoology of Homer and Hesiod (2)
30. On the comparative advantages of some methods of teaching Latin and Greek
31. On the topography of Rome
32. Miscellanies
33. Notices of recent publications
34. List of recent philological publications.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]