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)

9781108057929, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

396 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.5 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 11 contains the March and June issues for 1815.

Part XXI. On the Origin of the Druids
Etymological disquisitions
On the perfidy of the ancients
Notice of Heinrichii observationes in auctores veteres
Similarity between the English and Swedish languages
Prologus in Phormionem
Epilogus
Classical criticism
Notice of Nova chrestomathia tragica Graeco-Latina
In Carmina epodica Euripidea commentarius
Etona
The various meanings of the word 'rachia'
Extract from Herculaneum
Notice of De l'emploi des conjonctions
A Persian sonnet
Nodell epistola critica
Metrum Aeschyli Prometheo restauratum
On the Hebrew Bible
Notice of Joecher's Universal Lexicon
Gabriel Sionita
On the Greek and Latin accents
Manuscripts
The keys of life and death
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
Palaeographia Assyrio-Persica
Hebrew criticism
Answer to Mr Bellamy's essay
Imitative versification, ancient, and modern
Vincdicatio of Ernesti
Bentleii emendationes
Remarks on Potter's Archaeologia Graeca
Remarks on an error in the Periplus
An answer to a late book against Bentley
Epistola
Cambridge tripos for 1815
Adversaria literaria
Notice of Mathias's edition of Gray
Notice of Aeschyli Persae
Poicilographia Graeca
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XXII. Loci quidam Luciani
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
On the philosophical sentiments of Aeschylus
On the fables of Aesop
On the quantity of the word 'academia'
Vindication of Ernesti
Translation from Euripides
A discourse on ancient and modern learning
Cambridge Greek poem
In Carmina epodia Aeschylea commentarius
Bentleii emendationes
On the Greek and Latin accents
Hebrew criticism
Biblical criticism
Dr Crombie's remarks
Remarks on Sir W. Drummond's dissertation
Incidental strictures on Mr Blomfield's edition of the Persae
Bibliographical topography
Notice on the Leipsic edition of Porson's Adversaria
Aeschylus and Cicero
Notice of Marini Vita Procli
Cambridge tripos paper for 1781
Cambridge tripos paper for 1809
European words derived from the Persian
A Persian sonnet
Ancient customs
Ancient Elean inscriptions
The Alcaic stanza in Horace
Works of Gibbon
Adversaria literaria
Curae posteriores
Notice of Tibullus
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]