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Though Theodor Mommsen was probably unaware of it, from the time of the first appearance of his influential & successful ¿Romische Geschichte¿ (1854), he was the object of the passionate & 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 his contribution to the popular 19th-cent. theory of ¿matriarchy,¿ & his studies of relations in matrilinear societies. Classical scholars know of Bachofen¿s original contributions to the study of Greek myth & tragedy through George Thomson, whose interpretation of Athenian tragedy owes much to Bachofen.Lionel Gossman is the author of 'Orpheus Philologus: Bachofen Versus Mommsen on the Study of Antiquity: Transactions, APS (vol. 73, part 5)', published 1983 under ISBN 9781422374672 and ISBN 142237467X.
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