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)

9781108058025, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

374 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 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 21 contains the March and June issues for 1820.

Part XLI. Mystical Poetry of the Persians
Oxford prize poem
Remarks on the pyramid of Cephrenes
Miscellanea classica
The opinion of the ancient Hebrews
Arabian story
On the science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
The description of ardent fever given by Aretaeus
Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall
Bibliography
Dissertation historique sur Macrobe
The new edition of Stephens' Greek Thesaurus
Corrections in Wakefield's Lucretius
Greek ode
The invention of printing with moveable types
Parallel passages
Adversaria literaria
On the origin of the heathen mythology
Stanleii notae quaedam in Callimachum
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XLII. On the Instruction and Civilisation of Modern Greece
Remarks on a hieroglyph
The immortality of the soul
On the origin of the drama
Ancient British language of Cornwall
Translation and observations on an ode of Horace
Some emendations on Aristotle
Cambridge prize Latin essay
The sentences of Sextus Pythagoricus
Leake's Researches in Greece
Miscellanea classica
Corrections in the common translation of the New Testament
Dr Symmons's translation of the Aeneis of Virgil
Aristotle's famous definition of tragedy
Oxford prize poem for 1806
The Arabic manuscript describing the death of Mungo Park
Bibliography
On the origin, progress, prevalence, and decline of idolatry
Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Bible
Illustration of Jonah, ii, 2
Euripidou Medea
Letter to Dr Dee
Adversaria literaria
Notice of Dobree's Porsoni Aristophanica
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]