Orpheus Philologus: Bachofen Versus Mommsen on the Study of Antiquity Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 73, Part 5)

by Lionel Gossman

This is print on demand publication. Though Theodor Mommsen was probably unaware of it, from the time of the first appearance of his influential and successful "Romische Geschichte" (1854), he was the object of the passionate and enduring hatred of an obscure Swiss philologist in the provincial city of Basle. Johann Jacob Bachofen is still not well known in the English-speaking world. He receives a brief mention in most histories of anthropology for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142237467X
• ISBN13: 9781422374672
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 89 Pages