Museum criticum: Or, Cambridge Classical Researches

by Charles James Blomfield (Editor), James Henry Monk (Editor)

Overview

This short-lived (1813–26) classical journal was edited by James Henry Monk (1784–1856) and Charles James Blomfield (1786–1857), who were contemporaries at Trinity College, Cambridge. Both went on to ecclesiastical careers: Monk left his position as Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge to become Dean of Peterborough and subsequently Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, while Blomfeld, who already held the country living of Quarrington in Lincolnshire when the journal was founded, became Bishop of London. Encapsulating the dominant contemporary style of English classical scholarship – the close linguistic analysis of (primarily Greek) texts, as practised by Richard Porson (1759–1808), Monk's predecessor as Regius Professor – the Museum criticum became a rival to The Classical Journal (also reissued in this series) and was collected in two volumes in 1826. Illuminating the early development of academic journals, Volume 2 contains issues 5–8.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108056595
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/15/2012
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Classic Journals
Pages:	720
Product dimensions:	1.57(w) x 8.50(h) x 5.51(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Part I: Sapphonis fragmenta; Tryphonis grammatici opuscula; Notes on the Electra of Sophocles; On certain early Greek historians mentioned by Dionysius of Halicarnassus; On the middle voice of the Greek verb; Bibliographical notice of the editions of Aeschylus; Notices of new classical publications; Part II: Animadversiones quaedam in fragmentorum Sophocleanorum Syllogen Brunckianam; Edmundi Chishull notae in Horatium hactenus ineditae; Carmen antistrophicum ex Aristophanis Lysistrata; Animadversiones quaedam in Euripidis Supplices et Iphig.; Ricardi Bentleii curae novissimae ad Horatium nusquam alias editae; In Philemonis lexicon annotationes quaedam; Notes on the Electra of Sophocles (cont.); On certain early Greek historians mentioned by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (cont.); Inscription on one of Dr Clarke's marbles; Venice edition of Callimachus; Porfessor Porson's review of the Parian chronicle; Sapphonis fragmenta (cont.); Review of new classical publications; Part III: Joannis Miltoni emendationes in Euripidem; Edmundi Chishull notae in Horatium , II; Carmen hexametrum in Mnemosynen; Carmen hexametrum in Phantasiam; Porson's letter to Dalzel; Account of the hippocentaur; Notice relative to Michael Sophianus; Biographical memoir of Josephus Justus Scaliger; Samian inscription; Notes on the Ajax of Sophocles; Nicandri Theriaca, cum emendationibus Bentleii hactenus ineditis; Review of new classical publications; Part IV: Alcaei Mitylenaei fragmenta; Nicandri Theriaca, cum emendationibus Bentleii hactenus ineditis (cont.); Marasmos, carmen hexametrum; Ars piscatoria, carmen hexametrum; Notes on the Ajax of Sophocles (cont.); Porson's review of Knight's essay on the Greek alphabet; Josephi Justi Scaligeri epistolae quaedam selectae; Remarks on Greek inscriptions; Syntaxeos Atticae canones Dawesiani XI; Ancient Elean inscription; Porson's inscription for the statue of the Eleusinian Ceres; Review of new classical publications.