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)

9781108058032, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

498 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.63 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 22 contains the September and December issues for 1820.

Part XLIII. On the Origin, Progress, Prevalence, and Decline of Idolatry
De Davidis Ruhnkenii literario
Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall
Notice on Bishop Lavington
The immortality of the soul
Dissertation historique sur Macrobe
Prize poem for 1819
Bibliography
On the theology of the Greeks
On the different opinions which have been formed of Cicero
The opinion of the ancient Hebrews
De Aristophanis fragmentis
Essay on the evidence of scripture
Euripidei Phaethontis fragmenta
Miscellanea classica
Cambridge prize poems for 1820
Cambridge triposes for 1818
Manuscripts found at the Parthenon
On the plagiarisms of Blomfield
Aristophanis fragmenta emendata
Hints to form the Ovidian distich
Reply on Stephens' Greek Thesaurus
Adversaria literaria
Account of the library of the university of Gottingen
Oriental customs
Literary intelligence
Note to correspondents
Part XLIV. The Immortality of the Soul
Comicorum graecorum fragmenta
Oxford prize essay 1801
Latin poem
On the theology of the Greeks
Classical criticism
On the origin, progress, prevalence, and decline of idolatry
Notae et curae sequentes in Arati Diosemea
Simonides fragmenta duo emendata
De origine et vi verborum deponentium
On the new translation of the Bible
Inscriptio Eliaca explicata
Andocides emendatus
Critical observations on 'The course of the Niger'
An obscure passage in Cicero explained
MS fragment of a Greek ritual
In Herodotum emendationes
Thucydides emendatus
On the ancient British language of Cornwall
De Patavinitate Liviana
Amoenitates philosophicae
Notice of Elmsley's edition of the Medea
Remarks on a passage in the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea
The libraries at Leiden, Hanover, Cassel, Gotha, Weimar, Jena, Erlangen, Leipzig, and Dresden
On the Arabic inscription discovered in the pyramid of Cephrenes
On the state of religion and philosophy in antiquity
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
Note to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]