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 first volume was published in 1844.
Product details
December 2012Paperback
9781108057738
450 pages
216 × 140 × 25 mm
0.57kg
1 b/w illus. 2 maps
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Investigations on ancient weights, coins, and measures
- 2. Hymn to Isis
- 3. Greek topography
- 4. Herodotus
- 5. A dissertation on a second Bosporus Cimmerius
- 6. Comparative etymology
- 7. On the meaning and origin of the verb 'to tirl'
- 8. Notices of recent publications
- 9. Foreign intelligence
- 10. Universities
- 11. List of recent philological publications
- 12. Remarks on the documents in the De corona of Demosthenes
- 13. The geography of the Anabasis of Xenophon, 1
- 14. Certain points in the chronology of Herodotus
- 15. On Aristotle's definition of tragedy
- 16. Napoleon on the capture of Troy
- 17. Observations on the Xanthian marbles
- 18. On the so-called monument of Sesostris
- 19. Mr Frere's translation of Aristophanes
- 20. Miscellanies
- 21. Notices of recent publications
- 22. Literary intelligence and universities
- 23. List of philological publications
- 24. On the chorus of the Eumenides
- 25. The geography of the Anabasis of Xenophon, 2
- 26. Excursions from Rome in June 1843
- 27. On the rhythmical declamation of the ancients
- 28. Review of Heinrich's edition of Juvenal
- 29. Niebuhr and the Westminster Review
- 30. On the meaning of 'civilization'
- 31. Miscellanies
- 32. Notices of recent publications
- 33. List of new philological publications.
