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)

9781108057783, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

502 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.63 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 sixth volume was published in 1849.

Notice
1. Campaigns of Alexander in Affghanistan
2. On the interpretation of a passage in the Antigone of Sophocles
3. Dr Ihne on the early Roman constitution
4. Commentaries on, and illustrations of, the Eneis of Virgil (1)
5. Remarks on the review of Professor T. H. Key's Latin grammar
6. Miscellanies
7. Notices of recent publications
8. Lists of recent philological publications
9. On the Comitia curiata
10. Commentaries on, and illustrations of, the Eneis of Virgil (2)
11. The English language considered
12. On the mummy cloth of Egypt
13. Remarks on Sophocles' Antigone
14. Miscellanies
15. Notices of recent publications
16. Lists of recent philological publications
17. On the growth of the tribune's power, before the decemvirate
18. Commentaries on, and illustrations of, the Eneis of Virgil (3)
19. The Portland vase
20. Further remarks on the groups in the western pediment of the Parthenon
21. Miscellanies
22. Notices of recent publications
23. Lists of recent philological publications
24. On the intrusive elements of Latin
25. On the relation between the consonantal systems of the English and Sanscrit languages (1)
26. Ordeals among the Greeks and Romans
27. Homer, his art and his age
28. Recent translations of Aeschylus' Agamemnon
29. Miscellanies
30. Lists of recent philological publications.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]