Hermes (classical philology journal)

{{Short description|German academic journal}}

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| title = Hermes

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| language = German, English, French, Italian{{refn|name=FranzSteiner}}

| discipline = Classical philology

| editor = {{plainlist|*Hans Beck

• Martin Hose
• Claudia Schindler}}

| publisher = Franz Steiner Verlag

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| history = 1866–present

| frequency = Quarterly

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| ISSN = 0018-0777

| eISSN = 2365-3116

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| website = https://www.steiner-verlag.de/brand/Hermes

| link1 = https://www.jstor.org/journal/hermes

| link1-name = Online archive (JSTOR)

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| abbreviation = Hermes

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Hermes (full title: {{lang|de|Hermes: Zeitschrift für classische Philologie}}; Hermes: Bulletin for Classical Philology) is a German periodical specialising in classical studies. Originally published by the Berlin publisher Weidmann, it is now published by Franz Steiner Verlag.

Its founding in 1866 was led by the ancient historian Theodor Mommsen,{{refn|{{cite web|url=https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/mommsen-christian-matthias-theodor| publisher=Rutgers University| access-date=2024-01-29| title=Mommsen, Christian Matthias Theodor}}}} who co-founded the publication with Adolf Kirchhoff and Rudolf Hercher.{{refn|name=JSTOR|1={{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/journal/hermes| access-date=2024-01-29| title=Hermes| publisher=JSTOR}}}}{{refn|name=Einheit|{{cite journal|last=Grünbart |first=Michael| lang=de| title=Einheit in der Vielfalt – Vielfalt in der Einheit? Briefüberlieferung und Sammlungsgeschichten| trans-title=Unity in Diversity – Diversity in Unity? Epistolary Tradition and Collection Histories| journal= Frühmittelalterliche Studien| trans-journal=Early Medieval Studies| date=2023| volume=57| issue=1| doi=10.1515/fmst-2023-0008| doi-access=free}}}} Its first editor, from 1866 until 1881, was the philologist Emil Hübner:{{refn|{{cite book| last=Sandys| first=John Edwin| title=A History of Classical Scholarship| publisher=Cambridge University Press| place=Cambridge| date=2011| orig-date=1903| page=238| isbn=9780511903717}}}} most of its early contributors, including Hübner, were pupils of the Plautine scholar Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl.{{refn|name=Wagner|1={{cite journal| last=Wagner| first=Wilhelm| year=1867| title=On Jordan's Sallust| journal=Transactions of the Philological Society| page=242}}}} As of 2024, it is edited by Hans Beck, Martin Hose and Claudia Schindler.{{Refn|{{cite web|url=https://www.steiner-verlag.de/brand/Hermes| access-date=2024-01-29| publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag| title=Hermes}}|name=FranzSteiner}}

On its release, the German scholar Wilhelm Wagner praised Hermes as a worthy rival to the {{lang|de|Rheinisches Museum für Philologie}}, the oldest and then the dominant classical journal in the German-speaking world.{{refn|name=Wagner}}

Hermes is listed by Scopus, where it has a CiteScore of 0.2.{{refn|{{cite web|url=https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri|access-date=2024-01-29| publisher=Scopus| title=Sources}}}}