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Der Althistoriker Moses I. Finley als «Public Ancient Historian». Wissenschaftspopularisierung als Strategie auf dem altertumswissenschaftlichen Feld

Salome Walz

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 8 · 2026 · Jerman · DOAJ Scopus

In einem wesentlichen Teil seines Werks richtete sich der Althistorikers Moses I. Finley (1912–1986) nicht nur an ein akademisches Fachpublikum, sondern auch an eine breitere, interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Aktivitäten des «public ancient historian» Finley als…

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The Origins of the Name ‘The Old Oligarch’

Daniel Sutton

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 8 · 2026 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

The origin of the name ‘Old Oligarch’ for the author of the Constitution of the Athenians has long been uncertain. This article argues that Gilbert Murray did, in fact, coin the name in A History of Ancient Greek Literature, paraphrasing an earlier remark in German by Adolf Kirchhoff, and that the…

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Mommsen and Imperialism Revisited: From Justifiable Conquest to the Perils of Empire

Carsten Hjort Lange

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 8 · 2026 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

In the first half of the nineteenth century, national and liberal political currents significantly increased politicisation in Schleswig, Holstein, and Denmark. The Three Years’ War (1848–1851) and the Danish defeat in 1864 were pivotal events in this context. Theodor Mommsen’s work, particularly…

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1,4 Kilo Ligaturen. Die Sonderanfertigungen für das Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) und ihre Kosten im Jahr 1892

Ulrike Ehmig

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 8 · 2026 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

Im Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften liegt ein Dokument vom 13. Februar 1893, das die Schrift-Sonderanfertigungen für das Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum im Vorjahr samt ihren Kosten auflistet. Die Aufstellung steht in engem Zusammenhang mit der Beschwerde des Verlags…

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Francis Galton and William Bateson on Classical Athens: Eugenics, Genetics, and the Study of Ancient History

Tim Rood

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 8 · 2026 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

This article analyses the interpretations of Athenian history offered by Francis Galton and William Bateson. The first section discusses the much-cited assess­ment of the proliferation of eminent men in classical Athens offered by Galton in Hereditary Genius (1869); the less positive use of Greek…

Adventures With Mommsen

Brian Croke

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 7 · 2025 · Jerman · DOAJ Scopus

Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) has long been considered the greatest Roman historian of the nineteenth century. Above all he was an accomplished philo­logist, editor and scholarly organiser. This paper provides one historian’s reflections on decades of engaging with Mommsen in various contexts and in…

Unpublished Studies on Philodemus’ On Gods, Book 1

Marzia D’Angelo

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 7 · 2025 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

The article presents some unpublished studies on Philodemus’ On Gods, Book 1 (PHerc. 26) which I discovered while preparing a new edition of the Hercu­laneum papyrus, last edited by Hermann Diels in 1916. These materials include two copies of Diels’ edition annotated by Peter von der Mühll and…

Sulla superiorità dei Greci o degli Ebrei: una polemica di fine Settecento

Alessandra Coppola

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 7 · 2025 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

This paper reviews the main features of the ancient dispute concerning the cultural role of the Greeks in comparison with the Jews, with particular attention to the Greek responses on the eve of the revolution of 1821. The debate reveals a strong awareness of the Greeks’ past and a sense of…

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Die hellenische Geschichtsschreibung ist Zeitgeschichte: Eduard Schwartz on Greek Historiography in a 1939 Letter to J. Enoch Powell

Ivan Matijašić

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 7 · 2025 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

In early 1939, the British classical scholar, and later notorious politician, J. Enoch Powell (1912–1998) sent a letter in German to Eduard Schwartz (1858–1940) alongside a copy of his newly published book The History of Herodotus (Cambridge 1939). This interesting letter was published by Eckart…

Professors of Latin at the University of Liverpool 1884–1988: Philology, Hellenism and the Professionalisation of Latin at England’s Civic Universities in the Twentieth Century

Roy Gibson

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 7 · 2025 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

The story of Latin and its professors at the University of Liverpool (UK) is not only of intrinsic interest for its procession of prestigious figures and their scholarly achievements, but can also tell us much about the surprisingly slow emergence and gradual professionalization of Latin as a…

La storia antica come strumento diplomatico: Napoleone Bonaparte “socio mancato” della Rubiconia Accademia dei Filopatridi

Alfredo Sansone

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 7 · 2025 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

This paper aims at reconstructing the stages of the negotiations set up by the Italian scholars Bartolomeo Borghesi and Luigi Nardi with the French intellectuals Lazare Carnot and Jean-Louis Brad for the nomination of Napoleon Bonaparte as official member of the Rubiconia Accademy of Filopatridi in…

Adventures With Mommsen

Brian Croke

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 7 · 2025 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) has long been considered the greatest Roman historian of the nineteenth century. Above all he was an accomplished philo­logist, editor and scholarly organiser. This paper provides one historian’s reflections on decades of engaging with Mommsen in various contexts and in…

Epigraphische Zeitreisen. Heinrich Dressels Notizbücher der Italienreisen 1874–1876 und 1878

Ulrike Ehmig; Janine Meisel; Hannah Christine Orth dkk.

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 7 · 2025 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

In der Berliner Arbeitsstelle des Akademienvorhabens Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) befinden sich acht Notizbücher, die Heinrich Dressel während seiner Italienreisen in den Jahren 1874–1876 und 1878 führte. Dressels Aufgabe war es, systematisch die Inschriften jener Regionen aufzusuchen und…

Prolegomena per un’edizione del Sublime di Leone Allacci

Olivia Montepaone

History of Classical Scholarship, Vol. 7 · 2025 · Italia · DOAJ Scopus

L’articolo presenta l’edizione attualmente in corso d’opera del materiale inedito di Leone Allacci sul Περὶ Ὕψους, che comprende una traduzione latina, due serie di annotazioni e un commentario in latino. Si introducono brevemente i diversi testi e si fornisce una descrizione dei due testimoni…