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)

9781108057868, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

450 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.57 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 5 contains the March and June issues for 1812.

Part IX. Some Account of the Researches of the German Literati
On the existence of Troy
In Aeschyli cantus choricos tentaminis novi specimen
Account of the antiquities of Henna
Supplement to a dissertation on the 49th chapter of Genesis
Conjecturae criticae in auctores Graecos
Critical remarks on Longinus
Sir W. Drummond's version of some Egyptian names
On a Phoenician inscription, found in the island of Malta
Notice of illustration of Virgil's fourth eclogue
Justi Lipsii in Senecae Hippolytum animadversiones
Biblical criticism
Remarks on Mr Bellamy
De ludis privatis ac domesticis veterum
On the howling of dogs
Critical remarks on Dr A. Clarke's annotations on the Bible
Biblical criticism
On the pronunciation of Latin words
A defence of the account of the fall of Man in Genesis
Classical criticism
Latin poem
Conjectures respecting the cherubim
Letter of Isaac Casaubon
Ben Jonson's 'noon of night', and Virgil illustrated
Notes on part of the poem of Festus Avienus
An essay on the Alexandra of Lycophron
On the composition of the Greek Sapphic ode
Latin letter to Patrick Young
Inscriptions on some bricks found at ancient Babel
Classical criticism
The Bible
Ricardi Porsoni notae in Aristophanem Brunckii
Extemporary verses
Inscriptions
Oxford prize essay
Remarks on Illustrations of Homer
Prologus ad 'Andriam', 1811
Epilogus
Oxford English prize poem
Notice of Q. Horatii Flacci opera
Preface to the Aldine Pindar
From the leaf of a Lucretius in the library of J. Bryant
On the iambic metre used by Anacreon
Remarks on the antique ring
Notice of Hebrew bible
Classical criticism
Sir W. Drummond's answer to the remarks on the word 'pharaoh'
The necessity of the eastern languages to illustrate obscure passages in the more early Greek writers
On the syntax of 'isthi, scito'
Biblical criticism
Notice of Mr Barker's new edition of Cicero de senectute et de amicitia
Critical notice of Professor Monk's Hippolytus
Solution of Professor Porson's algebraical problem
Classical criticism
Persian ode
Gulielmi Canteri de ratione emendandi Graecos auctores
Illustrations of Homer
Necrology
A solution to the algebraical problem found in the pocket book of the late Professor Porson
Latin poems
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part X. A Critique on the VIth and VIIth volumes of the Asiatic Researches
To the Rev. T. Maurice, on pagan trinities
Biblical criticism
Appendix to Mr Patrick's essay
Antiquities
On the authenticity of the Bible
Classical criticism
Inscription found at ancient Saguntum
On Sorrento
Life of Dr Bentley
'Dialogus Stephanou tou Melanos'
Eis ten tou Khristou staurosin
Facetiae classicae
Bibliography
Concerning the origin of the Phaeaces
The phrase 'to run a muck' illustrated
Facetiae classicae
Critical notice of Bloomfield's Prometheus
Biblical criticism
On the nature and origin of the ancient Christian agapae
English prize poem
Latin ode
Classical criticism
Notice of Q. Horatii Flacci opera
Eutropius collatus cum MSto in bibliotheca publica Cantabrigiensi
Critical remarks on detached passages of Tacitus
Gulielmi Canteri de ratione emendandi Graecos auctores
On the creation
Reply to the article of Sidneyensis on the syntax of 'isthi'
Hermogenis Progymnasmata
Inscription at Fenica
Critical remarks on Longinus
On the Phoenician inscription, found in the island of Malta
Specimens of modern Greek
Latin poem
Cambridge tripos papers for 1812
Proposed emendation of Juvenal
Review of the reviewers of Mr Bellamy's Ophion
Notice of Mr Barker's new edition of Cicero de senectute et de amicitia
Critical review of Illustrations of Homer
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]