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)

9781108058049, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

440 pages, 3 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 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 23 contains the March and June issues for 1821.

Part XLV. The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology
A future immortal existence
Classical criticism
On Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Bible
Latin poems
Sylva, or silva
Classical criticism
On the mythology of the Greeks
Miscellanea classica
A short account of the library at Vienna
Disputatio de linguae graecae pronunciatione
Prologue and epilogue to the Phormio of Terence
Oxford prize poem
Observations on Boissonade
Classical criticism
Palibothra, and the Golden Fleece
Oriental literature
De origine et vi verborum deponentium
Barkeri Amoenitates philosophicae
Sketch of the character of Thomas Dempster
On Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Bible
Prize Greek poem
Biblical criticism
Of the Latin historians before Livy
Thucydides misquoted
Notes on some parts of Potter's Antiquities of Greece
Greek inscriptions
On the metrical canons of Porson
Brief notice of Cousin's Procli opera
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XLVI. Oriental Customs
Oxford prize Latin poem
Amoenitates philosophicae
On the genius and writings of Claudian
On the manners of the heroic ages
Notice sur les Découvertes philologiques
'The elements of Greek prosody and metre'
Antiquarian intelligence
The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology
Latin poem
The collation of Syriac MSS
A short account of the library at Munich
Notae et curae sequentes in Arati Diosemea
Etymologicl researches
On the monuments of Cicero
Classical criticism
Emendation of a passage in Livy, iii. 5
African fragments
An Arabic paper relevant to Mungo Park's death
Notes on some parts of Potter's Antiquities of Greece
Miscellanea classica
The villas of Cicero
Critical remarks on the fragments of Sappho, Alcaeus, and Stesichorus
On the word silva, or sylva
Biblical criticism
Notes on Longinus
A specimen of a translation of Telemachus
Bibliography
On the origin, progress, prevalence, and decline of idolatry
Somnia Thucydidea
Knight's Carmina Homerica
Latin poem
Greek inscriptions
Professor Lee's answer
The new edition of Stephens' Greek thesaurus
Of the Latin historians before Livy
Remarks on the new edition of Stephens' Greek thesaurus
Adversaria literaria
Notice of Euripidou Bakchai
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]