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)

9781108057936, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

508 pages
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 12 contains the September and December issues for 1815.

Part XXIII. Bishop Pearson's Minor Tracts
Remarks on Dr Johnson's Latin epitaph on Mr Thrale
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
Remarks on Latin metre
Notice of Mr Jones' Grammar of the Greek Tongue
Notice of Brunck's Anacreon
Observationes criticae in Euripidem
Account of the prices and purchasers of the collection of the late J. Edwards
Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human character
Biblical synonyma
A passage in Cicero's Cato Major illustrated
Answer to Mr Bellamy's essay
On the different Latin expressions of the verb 'to run'
Remarks on Mr Blomfield's edition of the Persae of Aeschylus
Bentleii emendationes ineditae in Aristophanem
On the 77th verse of the Hippolytus
The gallantry of Saladin and his brother Malek
Recherches sur Apollon
Notice of Collatio versionis Syriacae quam Peschito vocant
Answer to a late book against Bentley
Wallace
Observations on the 'Remarks in Sir W. Drummond's dissertation'
Bentleii epistolae duae
On the Margites of Homer
Dr Crombie's remarks
The life of Isaac Casaubon
Ode graeca
Cambridge prize poems for 1815
Sir William Browne's medals
Biblical criticism
Lockett's Arabic syntax
Notice of Tiberius Rhetor de figuris
On the word 'palimpsestus'
Cambridge prize poem for 1790
On the prosody of Greek verse
Adversaria literaria
Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XXIV. Biblical Criticism
Notice of Utriusque Leonidae carmina
Notice of Hamilton's general introduction
Oratio habita Cantabrigiae
Remarks on I Tim. iii. 16
Remarks on the meaning of a Hebrew word
Remarks on the defence of Gabriel Sionita
Remarks on Sir W. Drummond
Arabian tales, originally Persian
Momi miscellanea subseciva
Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human character
Prometheus
Remarks on the Cambridge MS of the Gospels and Acts
Notice of Rich's memoir on the ruins of Babylon
Biblical criticism
On the Greek and Latin accents
De lectione 'keroplastas'
Imitative versification, ancient, and modern
D. Heinsii oratio de utilitate
In Carmina epodica Aeschylea commentarius
Bentleii emendationes in Equites
Classical criticism
An answer to a book against Bentley
Notice of Frey's Hebrew, Latin, and English dictionary
Notice of Dr Marsh's Horae pelasgicae
Barkeri epistola ad Schaeferum
Notice of Poetae minores Graeci
Notulae quaedam in Platonis Menexenum
Notice of a grammar of the Persian language
Notice of the Megha duta
Biblical criticism
Bentleii epistolae
Adversaria literaria
Apologia
Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués
Euripides emendatus
Virgil explained
Prices of the library of Ralph Willett
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]