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)

9781108057967, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

398 pages
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 15 contains the March and June issues for 1817.

Part XXIX. Peri tou phoinikos
Collatio codicis Harleiani 5674
Desultory remarks on Juvenal
Observations on Maltby's edition of Morell's Thesaurus prosodiacus
De graecis Novi Testamenti accentibus
Klotzii Libellus
Notice of Hermanni elementa doctrinae metricae
Cambridge tripos for 1789
Latin poem
Remarks on the similarity of worship
On the caesura
On the Sapphic and Alcaic metres
On a passage of Livy
Notice of Ouvaroff on the Eleusinian mysteries
Some observations on the worship of Vesta
Adversaria literaria
Dr Crombie's remarks
Loci quidam Luciani
Notice of Sir W. Gell's Itinerary of the Morea
Sappho emendata
Prologus in Eunuchum
Epilogus
Additional remarks relating to the inscription upon the column of Diocletian at Alexandria
Extracts from Arcadius Grammaticus
Bentleii epistola
Correspondence
Annonce de Xenophon
Greek poem
Metrical lines contained in various prose classics
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XXX. Hebrew Criticisms
On the demon of Socrates
Longevity of men of letters
On the style of the ancient Greek epigram
Barkeri epistola critica
Bibliography
on the Sapphic and Alcaic metres
Gryphiadaea
De l'improvisation poetique
Some observations on the worship of Vesta
The shipwreck of St Paul
Instance of Arabian forgery
De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius
Collatio codicis Harleiani 5674
Miscellanea classica
On the originality of Kuster's discovery
Additional remarks on Arcadius Grammaticus
Translation from Timocreon
Greek Sapphic ode
Greek and Latin epigrams
The translation of Arrian's Periplus
Researches made among the ruins of Pompeii, in 1813
Certain modern opinions respecting the Troad
Mohammedes
On the derivation of 'antea,' etc.
Stackhousii emendationes
Curae posteriores
Adversaria literaria
Encore quelques mots de la colonne de Diocletien
Greek letter of Langton
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]