The Classical Journal

This forty-volume collection comprises all the issues of an early and influential classical periodical, first published between 1810 and 1829.

Abraham John Valpy (Edited by), Edmund Henry Barker (Edited by)

9781108057820, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

416 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.53 kg

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787–1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established himself in London as an editor and publisher, primarily of classical texts. Edmund Henry Barker (1788–1839), who had studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, became a contributor and then co-editor of this journal, which fuelled a scholarly feud with the editors of the Museum criticum (1813–26), a rival periodical (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Although its coverage overlapped with that of its competitor, the Classical Journal also included general literary and antiquarian articles as well as Oxford and Cambridge prize poems and examination papers. It remains a valuable resource, illuminating the development of nineteenth-century classical scholarship and academic journals. Volume 1 contains the March and June issues for 1810.

Part I. Desiderium Porsoni
Lusitania liberata
'Arche hemisu pantos'
Strenua inertia
Prologus ad Phormionem
Epilogus ad Phormionem
Critical notice of Butler's Aeschylus
Of the origin and progress of language and writing
Hager on the numismatical history of the Chinese, and their intercourse with the Greeks
Remarks on a manuscript of Aeschylus's tragedy, The Persians
Hammer's Ancient alphabet, and hieroglyphics
On the emerald
Ancient Arabian poem
On the quantity of a final short vowel before a word beginning with 's' followed by a consonant
In obitum Ricardi Porsoni
Latin inscription
The inscription at Axum
Inscription at Damietta
The Delian inscription
I Corinthians, Chap. XI. ver. 10
Recherches critiques sur la langue de l'Egypte
Vindication of St Paul from the charge of wishing himself accursed
De inscriptione Graeca in insula Chio reperta
Hannae Morae
An Oxford prize poem
Antiquum fragmentum Ovidii Heroides
Critical notice of Burges's Phoenissae of Euripides
Fragments of Sappho
Classical necrology
Biblical criticism
De graecorum verbis ex regula flectendis
Greek verses to Mr Elliot
Inscription at Sens
Critical notice of Miss Smith's Book of Job
Bibliography
Works preparing for the press
Notes to correspondents
Part II. Hager's Chinese Pantheon
Motives to the study of Hebrew
On the royal title of 'Rex Britanniarum'
Calpe obsessa
Elegeia scripta de ponto ad amicum Cantabrigiensem
De la formation du langage
A notice of travels in Asiatic Turkey and Persia
Critical notice of Essays on the Sources of Pleasure Received from Literary Compositions
In villam perelegantem R- H-
On the Latinisation of names
Corinthians I. Chap. II. ver. 10
Critical notices of 'Lindley Murray examined', and 'The essentials of English grammar'
Quo quisque valet suspectos terreat
Notulae to Burges's Phoenissae
Epigramma
Of the standard of taste (1)
Of the standard of taste (2)
Epigramma
Ad Bruntonam e Granta exituram hendecasyllabi
On the quantity of a final short vowel before a word beginning with 's' followed by a consonant
Biblical criticism
'mille pericula saevae urbis'
On anticipations of futurity in epic poetry
Critical notice of Burges's editions of the Phoenissae and Troades
Biblical criticism
On the emerald
Inscription on a helmet and cauldron found in the Alpheus, near Olympia
Notae in Philocteten Sophocleum
Of the Greek accents
Critical notice of Miss Smith's Book of Job
Bibliography
Works preparing for the press
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]