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)

9781108058056, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

460 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 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 24 contains the September and December issues for 1821.

Part XLVII. On the Origin, Progress, Prevalence, and Decline of Idolatry
Miscellanea classica
Puerilia
Dissertation on the countries to which Solomon and Hiram sent their fleets
Answer to Professor Lee's observation
Greek ritual
Classical criticism
Latin poem
The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology
Notae et curae sequentes in Arati Diosemea
On the mythology of the Greeks
Oriental customs
An introduction to Hebrew criticism
Observations on Mr Bellamy's reply
Oxford English essay prize for 1821
Remarks on the different methods of ploughing adopted by the Romans
Critica sacra
Conjecturae in Horat. Od. iii. et Epist. i.
Professor Gaisford's publications
Euripidis Phoenissae emendatae
De vita Johannis Jacobi Reiskii
Memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera
Adversaria literaria
Notice of a vindication of 1 John v, 7
Oxford English Prize Poem for 1821
Oriental literature
Cambridge Greek prize poem for 1821
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part XLVIII. Oxford English essay prize for 1809
Classical criticism
The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology
On the origin, progress, prevalence, and decline of idolatry
African fragments
Memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera
Critique on Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Bible
Observationes criticae of Beck
Amoenitates philosophicae
Cambridge prize poems for 1821
Notice of Knight's Carmina Homerica
Notice of Cousin's edition of the first two books of Proclus
Remarks on Livy, iii, 5
Notice of The life of William Sancroft
Biblical criticism
Turkish memoirs of Ewlia Efendi
Florilegium hibernicum
Remarks on Claudian, 1, 18, 22
Fragmenta dithyrambica
Miscellanea classica
Nugae
Puerilia
Oriental literature
The last no. of Museum criticum
American prizes
On the Elean inscription
On the plagiarisms of Dr Blomfield
On two passages in Virgil's Georgics
'An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures'
Literary intelligence
Dr Coplestone's Enquiry
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]