The Philological Museum

This 1832 volume, containing the first three issues of a short-lived journal, illuminates tensions between classical scholarship and Anglicanism.

Julius Charles Hare (Edited by), Connop Thirlwall (Edited by)

9781108054140, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 November 2012

720 pages
21.6 x 14 x 4 cm, 0.9 kg

This short-lived classical journal (1831–3), edited by Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855) and Connop Newell Thirlwall (1797–1875), both fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, disseminated the new comparative philology. Developed primarily in Germany - both editors were fluent German speakers - this approach critiqued biblical and classical texts and was associated with a liberal Christianity which brought the editors into conflict with the university's religious conservatism. Hare left Cambridge in 1832 to take up the family living in Herstmonceaux, Sussex, while Thirlwall was dismissed in 1834 for supporting the admission of dissenters. Both editors nevertheless continued with ecclesiastical careers, Thirlwall becoming bishop of St David's and Hare archdeacon of Lewes. This 1832 volume, containing the journal's first three issues, illuminates the tensions between classical scholarship and Anglicanism as well as the development of specialised journals in an age of general literary reviews.

Preface
1. On the names of the days of the week
2. On the number of dramas ascribed to Sophocles
3. On the early Ionic philosophers
4. On certain constructions of the subjunctive mood
5. Ancaeus
6. Notice of Payne Knight's Nummi Veteres
7. Notice of Aristotle's Oeconomics
8. On the Messapians
9. Poemata Latina
10. On the ius Latii, and the ius Italicum
11. On the Sicelians in the Odyssey
12. Iliadis Codex Aegyptiacus
13. Miscellaneous observations
14. Professor Scholefield's Aeschylus
15. On the age of the coast-describer, Scylax of Caryanda
16. On the fables of Babrius
17. Kruse's Hellas
18. On English adjectives
19. Philip of Theangela
20. Translation of part of the first book of the Aeneid
21. On the accession of Darius son of Hystaspes
22. On some passages in the civil and literary chronology of Greece
23. On the root of 'eileo'
24. The Journal of Education
25. Imaginary conversation
26. On the historical references, and the allusions in Horace
27. On Xenophon's Helenica
28. Xenophon, Niebuhr, and Delbrueck
29. On certain passages in the fourth and fifth books of the architecture of Vitruvius
30. On a passage in Xenophon's Hellenica
31. The comic poet Antiphanes
32. On the names of the antehellenic inhabitants of Greece
33. De Pausaniae stilo Augusti Boeckhii prolusio academica
34. On certain fragments quoted by Herodian
35. On English orthography
36. On English diminutives
37. Miscellaneous observations.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]