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)

9781108057998, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

416 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 18 contains the September and December issues for 1818.

Part XXXV. On the Science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
Notae et curae sequentes in Arati Diosemea
Oxford prize poem
An essay on the Greek pastoral poets
Loci quidam Luciani
The similarity of worship in different parts of the pagan world
Persii satirae
Lines on the death of Princess Charlotte of Wales
Vindiciae antiquae
Oxford prize poems for 1818
Duport's Greek prayer book
Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall
Some orations attributed to Cicero
Notae aliquot in Horatium
Notice of Le Philologue
Stackhousii emendationes
Col. Leake's remarks on the Trojan controversy
On Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Bible
On the origin of the term 'middle'
Cambridge Tripos
Hermanni censura
Cambridge prizes for 1818
Adversaria literaria
Biblical criticism
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XXXVI. A Reply to the Quarterly Review
Miscellanea classica
Observations on some orations ascribed to Cicero
Manuscripts
Ho basilikos hymnos
Biblical criticism
An essay on the Greek pastoral poets
On the science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
Loci quidam Luciani
Oxford prize essay
The philosophy of Aristotle
Miscella critica
Letter of Mr Gail on Theocritus
Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall
Obscure word in Lycophron
Egyptian embalmers
De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius
Porsoni notae ineditae
On the Greek Sapphic ode
Observations on Hermann's review of Stephens' Thesaurus
Oxford prize poem
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Index to vols. 17 and 18.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]