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)

9781108057950, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

418 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.53 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 14 contains the September and December issues for 1816.

Part XXVII. Cassandra
Jo. Davies
Biblical criticism
On the Horae Pelasgicae
Notice of a German treatise
Reply to Sir W. Drummond's remarks
Loci quidam Luciani
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
Notice of Maltby's edition of Morell's Thesaurus
Presentations at Oxford, 1814
On the Elgin Marbles
Manuscripts
Hebrew criticism
On the philosophical sentiments of Euripides
Oratio
Bentleii emendationes
Corrections in the common translation of the New Testament
Cambridge prize for 1816
Cambridge Tripos for 1816
Notice of Ouvaroff on the Eleusinian mysteries
Aristotelous Peplos
Epitaphium in Athenienses
Cambridge prize poem
Life of Dr Vincent
Professor Lennep on a passage of Propertius
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XXVIII. De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius
Biblical synonyma
Jo. Gagnierii Ecloga
Oratio
Critique on Ossian's Temora
On the Clouds of Aristophanes
Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués
Barkeri epistola critica
Stackhousii emendationes
Barkeri epistola secunda
On the philosophical sentiments of Euripides
Peri tou phoinikos
Notice of the holy scriptures of the New Testament
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
Observations on Mr Roberts's reply
Inscription among the ruins of Cyretiae
The oriental MSS in Munich
The collection of the late Mr Lunn
Ode latina
Epigrammata
The similarity of worship
Prologus in Eunuchum Terentii
Greek jeu d'esprit
Curae posteriores
On the Sapphic and Alcaic metres
Notae in Arati Diosemea
Corrections in the common translation of the New Testament
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron
Index to vol. 13 and 14.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]