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)

9781108057899, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

514 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.65 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 8 contains the September and December issues for 1813.

Part XV. On Ancient Geography
Notice of Animadversiones in Hymnis Homericos
On the sortes sanctorum
On the Buchanan Roll of the Pentateuch
Notice of Aeschyli Tragoediae
Classical criticism
On the quantity of 'nun' in comic verse
Short syllables
Two orations spoken at Oxford in the 17th century
Biblical criticism
Anecdotes of remarkable females
Inscriptions found at Saguntum
Gregorii Nazianzeni epigrammata
Carmina Homerica
Remarks on Longinus
Critical remarks on the Hippolytus Stephanephorus
Professor Porson vindicated
Reply on the Asonas of Theophylact
Aeschylus's Seven against Thebes
Biblical criticism
The power of the Hebrew Gnain
Vindication of Virgil
On the Hebrew Bible
Biblical criticism
Isokratou logos
Notice of Pherecydis fragmenta
Notice of Lagunae epistola
Recondite meanings of 'ruere'
Notice of Nisseni Curae novissimae
Books illustrative of the Bible and the classics
Derivation of the word 'mosaic'
Latin inscription
In tragicorum carmina monostropha commentarius
Manuscripts
Oxford prize poem
Hermogenis Progymnasmata
Biblical criticism
Observations on Persius
Notice of Bibliotheca Classica
Notes on Aeschylus
Inscription at Beroot
Notice of Schleusneri Opuscula
A defence of public schools
Euripidis Hercules furens
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XVI. On the origin of the druids
Account of the Wahhabis
Animadversiones in Juvenalis Satiras
Fontes quos Tacitus videatur sequutus
Inquiry into the etymology of 'peor'
Biblical criticism
On the Platonic use of 'kinduneuein'
Heumannus de summo bono
Arabian anecdote
Analecta critica
Calssical criticism
Carmina Homerica
A sketch of modern and ancient geography for the use of schools
On the republication of Castell's Aethiopic lexicon
On the repetition of certain words
On a verse of Aeschylus
Heliodorus born a Christian and not pagan
Critical remarks on Racine
Thesaurus criticus novus
The construction of 'macte'
Interpretatio, ex variis auctoribus collecta
The number seven
On the study of the Christian Fathers
An essay on the Hebrew points
Classical criticism
On Dr Hales's chronology
De nomininbus graecorum libellus
On Mr Boothroyd's Hebrew Bible
The German translation of Josephus
Winchester English prize poem
Adversariorum criticorum specimen
Latin poem
Observationes in Euripidis Heraclidas
Fragment of Longus
Drummond's 'Essay concerning the Shield of Achilles'
Biblical criticism
Prologus in Adelphos
Epilogus
Euripidis Supplices
A defence of pubic schools
Manuscripts
Literary intelligence
Westminster abbey
Account of the classical works sold at Dr Gosset's sale
Prospectuses of new works
Notes to correspondents
Index to vols. 7 and 8.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]