The Philological Museum

This 1833 volume, containing the last three issues of a short-lived journal, illuminates tensions between classical scholarship and Anglicanism.

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

9781108054157, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 November 2012

716 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 1833 volume, containing the journal's last 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.

1. Imaginary conversation
2. Dr Arnold on the Spartan constitution
3. On the Homeric use of the word 'heros'
4. On affectation in ancient and modern art
5. De Arati Canone Augusti Boeckhii prolusio academica
6. Anecdota Barocciana
7. On the Roman coloni
8. On the position of Susa
9. On certain tenses attributed to the Greek verb
10. Quo anni tempore Panathenaea Minora celebrata sint, quaeritur
11. Miscellaneous observations
12. On the use of definitions
13. On the Attic Dionysia
14. On the painting of an ancient vase
15. On certain particles of the English language
16. On oc and oyl
17. On the kings of Attica before Theseus
18. On English praeterites
19. On the birth-year of Demosthenes
20. Anecdota Barocciana
21. On ancient Greek music
22. De sacerdotiis Graecorum Augusti Boeckhii prolusio academica
23. De titulis quibusdam suppositis Augusti Boeckhii prolusio academica
24. Miscellaneous observations
25. On the irony of Sophocles
26. On the worth of Socrates as a philosopher
27. Schleiermacher on Plato's Apology
28. Socrates, Schleiermacher, and Delbrueck
29. Simplicius de caelo
30. Vico
31. Regia Homerica
32. Ogyges
33. Niebuhr on the distinction between annals and history
34. Hannibal's passage over the Alps
35. Miscellaneous observations.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]