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)

9781108058063, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

392 pages, 2 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.5 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 25 contains the March and June issues for 1822.

Part XLIX. Notice of Dodwell's Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece
Nugae
Puerilia
Cambridge triposes for 1822
On the fables of Aesop and Babrias
Arithmetic of the Holy Scriptures
The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology
On the origin, progress, prevalence, and decline of idolatry
Memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera
Notice of Bothe's edition of Senecae Tragoediae
Latin poem
Criticisms on some passages of Hakluyt's Early Voyages
Notice of The Life of William Sancroft
On the life and writings of Casimir
Epigrammata, epitaphia, variorum
Languages in which the translation and distribution of the scriptures have been promoted by the British and Foreign Bible Society
Concise view of the translations of the Holy Scriptures
Carmen seculare
'Graphike Hetairia' of Corfu
Observations on Cousin's and Creuzer's Commentaries of Proclus
Niehbur's discoveries in the Vatican
The appendixes to Burckhardt's Travels in Nubia
Latin epistle
Franciscus Portus and his Aeschylus
D. French's Munusculum Juventuti
Prologue and epilogue to the Andria of Terence
On the true age of Christ at the crucifixion
Burges' Aeschyli Tragoediae
Bibliography
Greek inscriptions
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part L. Classical Biography
Dunbar's defence of his Analecta
Some orations ascribed to Cicero
Corrections in the common translation of the New Testament
Notice of Boissonade's Excerpta
The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology
Epistola macaronica
On the origin, progress, prevalence, and decline of idolatry
Proposal for a Latin colony
Memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera
Observations on Cousin's and Creuzer's Commentaries of Proclus
Dublin prize essay
Eubulus on education at Cambridge
Barker's reply to Boiotos
Marklandi notae in Euripidem
Ossan's edition of Philemon
'The lyrics of Horace'
Diogenes Laertius
Nugae
'Illustrations of Hogarth'
Nugae criticae
Dalzel's Collectanea graeca majora
On the fables of Aesop and Babrias
Oriental literature
Adversaria literaria
Oxford English prize poem for 1822
Postscript to the memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]