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)

9781108057837, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

562 pages, 7 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.71 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 2 contains the September and December issues for 1810.

Part III. The Cambridge Greek Ode for 1810
The Latin ode, Injuriarum Africanarum finis
Latin ode on the same subject
Notice of two recent oriental publications
On the origin and progress of language and writing
On Latin supines
Fragment of Bacchylides
Oxford prize poem, Dying Gladiator
Oxford prize essay, English
Wasse on Latin scholiasts
Critical notice of Butler's Aeschylus
On Dr Hager's Murrhine vases
Critical remarks on detached passages of Tacitus
The laws of comedy
Remarks and emendations on some passages in Aristophanes
Biblical criticism
Remarks on Latin metres
Inscription on an Ionic temple, erected in Blenheim Gardens
Critical notice of Sir W. Drummond's dissertations in the Herculanensia
On hierographical language
Inscriptions found on a sarcophagus on a hill at Fenica, on the coast of Caramania
Mr Brunck's transcript
Conjecturae criticae in auctores Graecos
Of the Greek accents
Tacitus illustrated
Remarks on the Ta Tsing Leu Lee
St Luke illustrated, and Herodotus emendated
Critical remarks on detached passages of Demosthenes
Biblical criticism
Laughter not always the effect of joy
Commentarius in dialogis Euripideis
Opuscula Ruhnkeniana
Critical notice of Dr Clarke's 'Hebrew criticisms'
Critical notice of Dr Burney's Tentamen de metris
Inscriptions found at ancient Saguntum
Preparing for publication
Bibliography
Note to correspondents
Part IV. Oxford Prize Essay
Juvenal illustrated
Remarks and emendations on some passages in Aristophanes
A narrative of the last illness and death of Professor Porson
Some account of the inscription
Remarks on a passage in the 'Nux of Ovid'
Biblical criticisms
Explanation of a passage in Horace's Satires
Of the standard of taste
Classical criticisms
Grotius to Du Maurier
Grotius to James Augustus de Thou
Nugae grammaticae
Illustrations of Deuteronomy
Illustrations of Martial
Biblical criticisms
Illustrations of Isaiah
Critical remarks on Longinus
Of degrees in the universities
Remarks on Greek accents
On Latin supines
Critical notice of Dr Clarke's 'Hebrew criticisms'
Lamberti Bos dissertatio
Biblical criticism
Remarks on the English version of the Old Testament
Biblical criticism
Remarks on Sir G. Staunton's Penal Code of China
Latin poem
Conjecturae criticae in auctores Graecos
On the origin of the Greek cases
Remarks on the inscription on an Ionic temple, erected in Blenheim Gardens
Classical criticisms
Remarks on the inscriptions found at ancient Saguntum
Bibliography
Note to correspondents
General index to vols. 1 and 2.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]