The Philological Museum: (Cambridge Library Collection - Classic Journals)

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.

Table of Contents:
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 On the historical references, and the allusions in Horace; 27.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.