The Classical Museum: A Journal of Philology, and of Ancient History and Literature(Volume 3 The Classical Museum 7 Volume Set)

Born 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 third volume was published in 1846.

Table of Contents:
Notice; 1. On the use of the terms 'acanthus', 'acanthion', etc. in the ancient classics; 2. Aeschyli Supplices; 3. On the geography of a part of the retreat of the ten thousand Greeks; 4. On the existence of a nation bearing the name of 'Seres' or of a country called 'Serica' or 'Terra Serica'; 5. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology; 6. Remarks on Professor Long's paper on the Licinian law; 7. On the passage in Appian's Civil Wars which relates to the Licinian law; 8. Notices of recent publications; 9. On the age of Babrius; 10. Baalbec, Palmyra, and the extreme north-eastern bounds of the land assigned to the Israelites; 11. Professor Voemel's defence of the genuineness of the documents in Demosthenes's speech on the crown; 12. Ptolemy's knowledge of Arabia; 13. The Antigone of Sophocles and the Foreign Quarterly Review; 14. The asylum of Romulus; 15. Beckeri Topographia urbis Romae; 16. Miscellanies; 17. Literary intelligence; 18. Notices of recent publications; 19. Lists of recent philological publications; 20. On the choral dancing of the Greeks; 21. The Quarterly Review and Greek lexicons; 22. On the guardianship accounts of Demosthenes; 23. Suburbs of the Levitical cities; 24. On a European notation for extra European sounds; 25. The practice of writing English in classic metres; 26. On Victorinus; 27. On the Latin word 'immo' or 'imo'; 28. Comparative etymology; 29. Miscellanies; 30. Notices of recent publications; 31. Lists of recent philological publications; 32. On the topography of Rome; 33. On the pronunciation of Greek; 34. On the Leges annales of the Romans; 35. The youth of Jason renewed by Medeia; 36. Ethnology and philology; 37. Notices of recent publications; 38. Lists of recent philological publications.