Mnemosyne (journal)

Mnemosyne. A Journal of Classical Studies is one of the oldest and most prestigious journals in the field of classical philology.

Mnemosyne was founded in 1852. Only a few existing journals in this field are older, so the Rhenish Museum of Philology (1827 ), or Philologus (1846 ). In its inception the time appearing in suffering from the publisher Brill journal belonged to the sphere of influence of the then dominant German philology. Today, the magazine is oriented more to the international classics. So especially essays, miscellanea and reviews are published in English. But also German and Dutch articles are reprinted frequently, even texts in the other major languages ​​of science are possible.

Throughout its history, the publication was repeatedly interrupted or changed. Only four times the magazine was restarted and currently appears in the fifth series (fourth series 1948-2009 ). Currently, the magazine is published annually in six issues. Editors are currently Gerard Boter, Angelos Hanioti, Kathleen Coleman, Irene JF de Jong and Tobias Reinhardt. Previous editors were among others January Maarten Bremer, Cornelis Jord Ruijgh, LF Janssen, Harm Pinkster, Pieter Hermann Schrijvers, Henri Willy Pleket and Hendrik Simon Versnel. While items such as ancient history are content with neighboring disciplines possible, but rare. Mnemosyne is a purely altphilologische primarily subjects treated periodical.

In addition to the magazine also Monographs appear as supplementary volumes.