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)

9781108058001, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

392 pages, 1 map
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 19 contains the March and June issues for 1819.

Part XXXVII. A Reply to the Quarterly Review
Loci quidam Luciani
The philosophy of Aristotle
Stanleii notae in Callimachum
Some orations attributed to Cicero
Hypotheses of Mr Bryant and Mr Faber reconciled
Odes by Professors Hermann and Böttiger
Notae et curae sequentes in Arati Diosemea
Oxford prize essay for 1818
Observations on Hermann's review of Stephens' Thesaurus
Sur Simonides de Ceos
De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius
Cambridge triposes
Life of Heyne
Emendationes Bentleii in Ovidium
The English liturgy
Notice of a second memoir on Babylon
Antar, a Bedoueen Romance
Adversaria literaria
Notice of a vindication of the master of Exeter School
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XXXVIII. Dissertation on St Paul's Voyage from Caesarea to Puteoli
Oxford prize poem
Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall
A letter on the Portland vase
A second reply to the Quarterly Review
Emendationes Bentleii in Ovidium
Notice of Euripidou Medea
Notice of Academic Errors
On the science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius
Babylon
Notice of the Oedipus Romanus
Miscellanea classica
An essay on moods
De ostracismo Atheniensium
Poem by the King of Persia
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]