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)

9781108057882, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

508 pages, 2 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.64 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 7 contains the March and June issues for 1813.

Part XIII. Inquiry into the Causes of the Diversity of Human Characters
Researches of the German literati
Latin poem
Observations on the 'China of the Classics'
Critical notice of Philemonis lexicon
Epigram on Cicero
Latin inscription
Account of Herculaneum
Biblical criticism
Prologus in Eunuchum
Epilogus
On the ancient language of Egypt
Observations sur le costume théatral
Latin ode
Biblical criticism
Explanantion of a passage in Virgil
Classical criticism
A sermon preached by John Pearson
Aristophanis comoediae
Reply to an article on Bentley's Callimachus
On the existence of Troy
Answer to the defence of Sir W. Drummond
On the primary meaning of 'nubere'
Biblical criticism
Miscellaneous observations
Specimens of Persian poetry
On reading the Greek Testament in public schools
Biblical criticism
Latin inscription
Classical criticism
On the language of action
Account of an extraordinary sect called Yezidis
On the Tyrian inscription found in the island of Malta
St Quentin's English and French grammars
Observations on Falconer's Strabo
Singular use of the word 'angelos'
A letter of Rzevuski
On the composition of the Greek Sapphic ode
In tragicorum graecorum carmina monostrophica commentarius
Prometheus desmotes of Aeschylus
On the origin of the druids
Mr Barker's reply
On the Phoenician inscription found in the island of Malta
Observations on Dr Holmes' preface
Biblical synonyma
The Hippolytus Stephanephorus
The founders of the Druses religion
Grammatica graeca ab Augusto Matthiae
The name of Zoroaster
Inscriptions found at ancient Saguntum
Prospectuses of works
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XIV. Notice of Iconographie Ancienne
Biblical criticism
Miscellaneous observations
Epigram
Interpretatio notarum Romanarum
Palaeographie
On the Tyrian inscription
Notice of Aeschyli Tragoediae quae supersunt
Bibliography
Notice of Teucher's edition of Antoninus Liberalis
Biblical criticism
Classical criticism
Critical notice of Elmsley's Heraclidae
Notice of Moore's Hindu Pantheon
Egyptian antiquities
Notice of Allen's Elements of English Grammar
Asonas of Theophylact
Carmina Homerica
Notice of Nonni Dionysiacorum libri sex
Biblical criticism
Christ's birth not mis-timed
To the editors of Stephens's Gr. Thesaurus
Manuscripts
Account of Cambridge honors
In tragicorum graecorum carmina monostrophica commentarius
Observations on the Romaic or modern Greek language
Poems by the King of Persia
Anecdotes relating to Theophilus
Error in Milton's Latinity noticed
Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes
Xenophon's Oeconomicus
Aristophanis opera
Latin poem
Notice of Ciceronis de natura deorum
Hermogenis progymnasmata
Latin inscriptions
Collation of two MSS of Sophocles
Biblical criticism
Classical criticism
Essay on blank verse
Two letters from T. Falconer
Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes
Prometheus vinctus emendatus
Metrical arrangements restored to Horace
Observations on Suidas
Notes on Aeschylus
Classical criticism
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]