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)

9781108057981, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

480 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.61 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 17 contains the March and June issues for 1818.

Part XXXIII. Notice of the Origin of Pagan Idolatry
On literary coincidences
On the science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
Remarks on the Prometheus of Aeschylus
Miscellanea classica
Modern Greek proverbs
Notae et curae sequentes in Arati Diosemea
Annotationes in Sophoclis Antigonam
On the particle 'an'
An essay on the Geek pastoral poets
Greek dialects
Littérature grecque
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
On the character of Plutarch as a historian
Vindiciae antiquae
Collection of the Chaldean Oracles
Observations on some orations ascribed to Cicero
Biblical criticism
Monuments of Aristotle
Orphic remains
Bishop Pearson's minor tracts
On M. Gail's Recherches
On a geometrical query in Plato's Meno
Sketch of the life, character, and philosophy, of Anaxagoras
Variae lectiones Aeschyli
Strada's contest of the musician and the nightingale
Notice of Histoire chronologique de l'art du dessin
Manuscripts
Variae lectiones ad Euripidem
Stanleii notae quaedam in Callimachum
Remarks to prove that Josephus is a historian and apologist of the gospel
Herculanensian papyra
Adversaria literaria
Examinations for the classical medals at Cambridge
Mola iuventutis restauratrix
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XXXIV. Mr Bellamy's Specimen of his Emendation of the Bible
Cambridge tripos 1813
Collection of Chaldean oracles
Observations on some lines of Homer
Bishop Pearson's works
Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674
On literary coincidences
Latin prize essay
Ptolemy
The site of Palibothra
Barkeri epistola critica
Loci quidam Luciani
Vindiciae antiquae
Variae lectiones
Miscellanea classica
Stanleii notae quaedam in Callimachum
Commentatio ad inscriptionem Actiacam
Observations on some orations ascribed to Cicero
Professor Duport's Greek prayer book
Lexicography
Biblical criticism
The library of the late Dr C. Burney
Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]