Mnemosyne (magazine)
Mnemosyne. A Journal of Classical Studies is one of the oldest and most renowned specialist journals in the entire field of Classical Philology .
Mnemosyne was founded in 1852. Only a few existing journals in this field are older, such as the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (1827) or the Philologus (1846). When it was founded , the magazine , published in Leiden by the Brill publishing house , was part of the sphere of influence of the then dominant German classical philology. Today the journal is more oriented towards international classical philology. Essentially, essays, miscommunication and reviews are published in English. But German and Dutch articles are also accepted, and earlier also texts in the other important scientific languages such as Italian or Latin.
In the course of its history, the publication was interrupted or changed several times. The magazine was restarted four times and is currently in the fifth series (fourth series 1948 to 2009). The magazine is currently published in six issues a year. The current editors are Christoph Pieper (editor-in-chief), Angelos Chaniotis , Kathleen M. Coleman , Irene JF de Jong and Tobias Reinhardt . Former editors included Jan Maarten Bremer , Cornelis Jord Ruijgh , LF Janssen, Harm Pinkster , Pieter Herman Schrijvers , Henri Willy Pleket , Hendrik Simon Versnel and Gerard Boter . In terms of content, articles on neighboring disciplines such as ancient history are possible, but rarely and only allowed if they have a strong reference to the texts of Greco-Roman antiquity. Mnemosyne is therefore a periodical that primarily deals with purely ancient philological topics .
In addition to the journal, monographs are also published as supplement volumes. From the European Science Foundation is Mnemosyne out as a magazine with an A ranking.