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)

9781108057943, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

462 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 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 13 contains the March and June issues for 1816.

Part XXV. Cassandra
De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius
Criticism on the Poetics of Aristotle
On a Greek epigram
Hebrew criticism
Notice of Fragmenta Basmurico-Coptica
Loci quidam Luciani
Classical criticism
Momi miscellanea subseciva
Essay on triposes
Bishop Pearson's minor tracts
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
On the Elean inscription
Prologus in Phormionem
Epilogus
The 24th book of the Odyssey
On the Greek and Latin accents
On the monument of Comosarya
Bentleii emendationes
Corrections in the common translation of the New Testament
Inscriptions remarquables
Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués
Authors ancient and modern
De fragmentis poetarum minorum
Latin poem
Notice of Shütz's edition of Euripidou Phoinissae
The present state of Tempe
Apologia
Biblical criticism
Notice of De officiis
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
XXVI. Life of Dr Vincent
Mr Bellamy's answer
Bentleii emendationes
Classical criticism
Imitative versification, ancient and modern
On the ancient Zabii
Klotzii Libellus
Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human character
Analyse du premier volume de Pausanias
Inscription at Skripu
Bentleii emendationes
On epitaphs
Observations on some idioms of the Greek language
Catalogue of Joshua Barnes's works
Biblical criticism
Notice of Phaedrus
De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius
De fragmentis poetarum minorum Gr.
Latin poem
Notice of Ouvaroff on the Eleusinian mysteries
Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués
Remarks on the similarity of worship
Professor Lennep's conjecture on Propertius
Biblical and classical criticism
Gwawd Lludd y Mawr
Answer to Dr Crombie's remarks
Hebrew criticism
Adversaria literaria
Emendationes in Aelianum
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]