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)

9781108057905, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

626 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.79 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 9 contains the March and June issues for 1814.

Part XVII. A Defence of Public Schools
Oratio de constitutione tragoediarum
In Carmina Epodica Euripidea commentarius
Catalogus praelectionum Gottingae
Epithets in poetical composition
Bibliographical inaccuracy
Adversaria literaria
Notice of 'Morhofii liber de pura dictione latina'
Biblical criticism
Euripidis Supplices
Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human characters
Latin poem
Remarks on the Greek Fathers
Remarks on the Miscellaneous Observations on Authors, Ancient and Modern
Tacitus illustrated and emended
Mors Nelsoni
Remarks on Strabo
On Mr Blomfield's derivation of the word 'ipoun'
Remarks on some points of resemblance between the English and Italian languages
Etymological disquisitions
Illustration of St Gregory's epitaph on St Basil
Latin inscription
Critical remarks on the Hippolytus Stephanephorus
Biblical and classical criticism
Classical connexions
Suetonius collatus cum MSto Dunelmensi
Biblical criticism
Egyptian etymology
Loci quidam Luciani
Conjectura in locum dialogi de causis corruptae eloquentiae
Casimir and Burns
Classical criticism
An answer to a late book written against Dr Bentley
Dr Parr's inscription for Sir John Moore's monument
Poicilographia graeca
Biblical criticism
Porson's collation of the Harleian manuscript of the Odyssey
Marathonian antiquities
Bishop Pearson's minor tracts
The language of flowers, fruits, etc.
Biblical synonyma
On the conformity of the Greek, Latin, and Sanskrita languages
Notice of a new edition of Schleusner's Greek Lexicon
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XVIII. Remarks on the Miscellaneous Observations on Authors, Ancient and Modern
Biblical criticism
On the diacritical points
Inscription on a tablet to the memory of Dr J. Jowett, of Cambridge
Bibliography
Inquiry relative to Nestoris Novariensis vocabula
Biblical criticism
Bishop Pearson's minor tracts
Horace explained by Euripides
Account of the literary labours of Professor Porson
In Carmina Epodica Euripidea commentarius
Biblical criticism
Richardi Bentleii oratiuncula
Classical criticism
On the Attic months
Observations on Milton's Latin poetry
Tentamen de poetis Romanis elegiacis
An answer to a late book
An inquiry into the versification of Homer
List of Hebrew grammars
Suetonius collatus cum MSto Dunelmensi
Integrity of the Hebrew text
Classical criticism
Poicilographia graeca
Bibliographical intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Supplement to Part XVIII. Observations on the Geography of Susiana
Sophocles corrected and explained
Notice of Teubner's Tractatus philologico-exegeticus
Notice of Diodori Siculi bibliothecae historicae libri qui supersunt
Greek translation
Notice of Vetus Testamentum Graecum
Biblical criticism
On the Greek article
Biblical criticism
Herodotus amended
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
Notice of Aulus Persius Flaccus
Cambridge tripos papers for 1808 and 1814
Bentley defended from a charge of plagiarism
Notice of Robinson Crusoeus
Momi miscellanea subseciva
On the conformity of the Greek, Latin, and Sanskrita languages
Hebrew criticism
Notice of Chronological Retrospect
Latin poem
Manuscripts
Concerning Egyptian idols
Conjectura de Heyschio Milesio
Adversaria literaria
Remarks on Topography of the Plain of Troy
Journey to Persia.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]