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)

9781108057912, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

464 pages, 5 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 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 10 contains the September and December issues for 1814.

Part XIX: Conjectures on the Chronology of the Travels of St Paul
Note of Aug. Matthiae's observationes
On the use of 'an' or 'ke' with an optative mood
On the book of Jasher
On the Latin poetry of Professors Barrow and Duport
In carmina epodica Euripidea commentarius
Cincio ad clerum
D. Nestor Novarenus
On the words 'herpis', 'olpis', 'olpe', 'elpos', 'elphos', and 'celtis'
Distinctive mark over the indeclinable particles of the Latin language
On the Greek inscription on the Rosetta Stone
Cambridge Greek, Latin and English prize poems for 1814
Bishop Pearson's minor tracts
Euripides corrected
Manuscript of Aeschylus
Juvenal vindicated
Oratio Norvicensis
Notes on Aeschylus
Index to three volumes of Brunck's Analecta
Derivation of English words and phrases from the Spanish and Italian
Classical connexions
On the inceptive power of 'S'
Notice sur la vie et les ecrits de M. Larcher
Notitia codicis manuscripti Sallustii et Eutropii
Nodell epist. critica
Cambridge prize poem, Greek
Adversaria literaria
Notice of Grant's Greek grammar
Poicilographia graeca
Momi miscellanea subseciva
A short account of the anatomy and physiology of the brain
Oratio
Literary intelligence
French literature
Notes to correspondents
Materials for the improvement of the new edition of Stephens' Greek Thesaurus
Part XX. An Answer to a Book against Bentley
Biblical synonyma
Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human character
Dissertatio T. S. Bayeri
On the Attic months
Answer to Mr Bellamy's essay
Answer to the 'Remarks on the topography of the plain of Troy'
Conjectural criticism on Virgil
Carem Toghrai
Genders
Arabic proverb
Biographical memoir of Griesbach
Manuscripts
A passage in the Cato Major
Notice of Klotzii Opuscula
Bibliography
Modern words derived from the east
On the affinity between the German and English dialects
Error in the Periplus
Defence of a passage in Herodotus
Inscriptions at Barcelona
Passage from Persian poems
Renaudot's Travels of Two Mahommedans
Hebrew criticism
Adversaria literaria
Houardius carceres invisens
Letter
Notice of Pausanias' description of Greece
Notice of Gyles' Elements of Hebrew Grammar
French literature
Classical connexions
In carmina epodica Euripidea commentarius
French literature
Notice of Dr Crombie's gymnasium
Geometrical problem
Answer to the observations on the researches in Greece
Notae in Euripidis Med.
Supplement to the materials for the improvement of the new edition of Stephens' Greek Thesaurus
Curae posteriores
Literary intelligence
French literature
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]