The Classical Museum
The Classical Museum
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GBPBorn 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.
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December 2012Paperback
9781108057769
488 pages
216 × 140 × 28 mm
0.62kg
3 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 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.
