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)

9781108057974, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

406 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 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 16 contains the September and December issues for 1817.

Part XXXI. The Literary and Scientific Pursuits Which Are Encouraged and Enforced in the University of Cambridge
Vindiciae antiquae
Pasigraphy
Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués
De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius
Latin poem
On the Sapphic and Alcaic metres
A critical examination of certain modern opinions respecting the Troad
Observations on the iambic metre of Phaedrus
Peri tou phoinikos
De l'improvisation poetique chez les anciens
Barkeri amoenitates criticae et philologicae
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
Account of literary forgeries
On the science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
Remarks on the daemon of Socrates
Stanleii notae quaedam in Callimachum
Cambridge prize poem
Ode latina
Epigrammata
Senarii Graeci
Cambridge examination for a university scholarship
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XXXII. Remarks on the Similarity of Worship that Prevailed in Different Parts of the Pagan World
Manuscripts
Barkeri epistola critica
Prolusio mercurialis
Loci quidam Luciani
Walckenaer on ancient geography
On the science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
Corrections in the common translation of the New Testament
On the character of Plutarch
Vindiciae antiquae
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
Notice of Bailey's Hieroglyphicorum origo et natura
Some observations on the worship of Vesta
Collection of the Chaldean Oracles
Critique on Ossian's Temora
Miscellanea classica
De l'improvisation poetique chez les anciens
Answer to the observations of Mr Roberts's reply
Barkeri amoenitates criticae et philologicae
Remarks on the introductory chapters of Moses
Cambridge tripos
Observations on Horace
Roman inscription at Tarragona
An important passage of Photius corrected
Orchomenian inscription
Inscription on the tomb of Arrian
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Index to vols. 15 and 16.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]