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)

9781108058018, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

570 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.72 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 20 contains the September and December issues for 1819.

Part XXXIX. The Story of the Trojan Horse
Miscellanea classica
Life of Heyne
On the science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
Introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures
An essay on moods
On the antiquity of alchymy
In Euripidem commentarii
Bibliography of the middle of the 17th century
Cambridge prize poems for 1817
Dissertation historique sur Macrobe
Lacrymae elegiacae
An essay on the Greek pastoral poets
Oratio a Hermanno
De ostracismo Atheniensium
Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall
Notices of foreign works on oriental literature
On the 'tau', or crux ansata
Thoughts on a revision of the translation of the Old Testament
Notice of Brunck on Sophocles
Greek pastoral poetry
Advesaria literaria
Notice of Mr Bellamy's Anti-Deist
Bibliography
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XL. Thoughts on a Revision of the Translation of the Old Testament
The description of ardent fever given by Aretaeus
The composition of Greek indexes
Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall
In Euripidem commentarii
Boissonade's Animadversiones
On the polite literature or belles lettres of Holland
Error of Mr Mathias noticed
Biblical criticism
On the coincidence between the belts of the planet Jupiter and the fabulous bonds of Jupiter the Demiurgus
Oxford prize essay for 1819
Classical criticism
Miscellanea classica
Eastern antiquities
On a character given of Dr Bentley
Cambridge prize poem for 1805
Prologue and epilogue to the Adelphi of Terence
Adversaria literaria
Bibliography
Adam's elegy on the death of Abel
Literary intelligence
Index to the first forty numbers of the Classical Journal.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]