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)

9781108057776, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

508 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.64 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 fifth volume was published in 1848.

Notice
1. On the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
2. Flora Homerica
3. Sophocles and his dramatic art
4. On a vase, representing the Amphorites agon
5. Miscellanies
6. Notices of recent publications
7. Lists of philological publications
8. Gods and heroes of legendary Greece
9. On the sculptures from the Mausoleum, at Halicarnassus
10. Essay on the papyrus of the ancients
11. On the topography of Rome
12. Miscellanies
13. Lists of recent publications
14. On the relation of the classical to the Syro-Arabian languages
15. Museum Disneianum
16. Moses in Canaan
17. C. Lucilii Saturarum Reliquiae
18. On Savigny's System des heutigen Römischen Rechts
19. Anthologia Oxoniensis
20. Miscellanies
21. Notices of recent publications
22. Lists of recent philological publications
23. On the dithyramb
24. Explanation of the groups in the western pediment of the Parthenon
25. An examination of some theories respecting the authorship and the union of plan of the Iliad and Odyssey
26. Miscellanies
27. Notices of recent publications
28. Lists of recent philological publications.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]