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)

9781108057875, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

470 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.59 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 6 contains the September and December issues for 1812.

Part XI. Biblical Criticism
Sequel to Sir W. Drummond's essay on the inscriptions found at ancient Saguntum
Concerning the shield of Achilles
Latin poem
Remarks on the existence of Troy
Biblical criticism
Specimens of Persian poetry
Classical criticism
Critical notice of Professor Monk's Hippolytus
Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human character
The scholiast on Hephaestion, and an ode of Anacreon
Notice of Q. Horatii Flacci opera
List of Romaic authors
Classical criticism
Observations on a passage in Juvenal
Loci quidam Luciani emendati atque explanati
On the date of the Clouds of Aristophanes
Bencii praefatio
Prize poem
Preface to the editio princeps of Aristophanes
Adnotationes in quaedam Horatii loca
Classical criticism
Notes on part of the poem of Festus Avienus
Inscriptions found at ancient Saguntum
Supplementary notes to Mr Barker's edition of Cicero's two tracts
Mr Bellamy's defence of his biblical criticisms
Oxford prize poem
On the Hebrew numerals and the different modes of notation
Hesychius vindicated
On the Tyrian inscription
Classical criticism
Critical and explanatory notes on the Prometheus desmotes of Aeschylus
History of translations
Latin inscriptions
Appendix to Mr Patrick's essay
Observations on Mr Patrick's 'chart of numerals'
Necrology
Classical criticism
Professor Porson, E. H. Barker, and Sidneyensis
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Prospectuses of works
Part XII. Oxford Prize Essay
On classical education
Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human character
Critical review of Illustrations of Homer
Supplementary notes to Mr Barker's edition of Cicero's two tracts
Notice of Q. Horatii Flacci opera
Specimens of Persian poetry
Illustration of a passage in the New Testament
Notes on part of the poem of Festus Avienus
Course of studies pursued at Oxford
Some account of the researches of German literati
Seria biblica
Biblical criticism
Lamberti Bos regulae praecipuae accentuum
Conjecturae criticae in auctores Graecos
Biblical criticism
Critical and explanatory remarks on the Hippoluytus Stephanephorus
Poema numismate annuo dignatum, et in curia Cantabrigiensi recitatum (Ode gr.)
Poema numismate annuo dignatum, et in curia Cantabrigiensi recitatum (Ode lat.)
Oratio de publicis Atheniensium moribus
Latin poem
Classical criticism
On the creation
Bibliography
Inscriptions on the Greek theatre at Syracuse
Classical criticism
Note on Sallust
Latin poem
Classical criticism
Biblical and classical criticism
Hermogenis Progymnasmata
Notice of Musae Edineses
Mathematicians and medallists at Cambridge
List of books sold at extraordinary prices at the Roxburghe sale
Index to vols. 5 and 6
Prospectuses of works
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]