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)

9781108058070, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

418 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.53 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 26 contains the September and December issues for 1822.

Part LI. Notice of the Satires of Persius
The arithmetic of the Holy Scriptures
Latin poem
Collation of the Sept. c. Thebas of Aeschylus with a MS in the library of Turin
Dalzel's Collectanea Graeca Majora
The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology
Defence of plagiarism
Symbolae criticae ad Ciceronis Disputationem Tusculanarum
On the various readings of the Hebrew Bible
Ossan's edition of Philemon
Remarks on criticisms of the Pentateuch
Nugae
Notice of a Journal of a Tour in the Levant
An anaylsis of the Egyptian mythology
Notice of Itinerary of El Hage Boubeker Anzani to Mekka
Notice of Idyllia heroica decem
Oriental criticism
Plato, Horatius, et Alcaeus, emendati
Remarks on Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Bible
Oxford Latin prize poem for 1822
Oxford Latin prize essay for 1822
Reply of Boiotos to Barker
Notice of the pamphlets relative to the studies and examinations at Cambridge
Barkeri Amoenitates criticae et philologicae
Remarks by Granville Penn
Adversaria literaria
Chronological mnemonics
Classical critical criticism
Literary intelligence
To correspondents
Part LII. Notice of The Spirit of the Gospel
Notice of Idyllia heroicae decem
On two passages in Virgil's Georgics
In Demosthenem commentarii
Symbolae criticae
Biblical criticism
Empedoclis et Parmenidis Fragmenta
The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology
Oxford English essay prize for 1822
Cambridge English prize poem for 1822
Criseos mythologicae specimen
Notice of Haack's Thucydides
On the orations ascribed to Cicero
Itinerary of Achmed ben El Hassen
Remarks on Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Old Testament
Comicorum graecorum fragmenta
Remarks on Livy iii, 5
Prolusio epigraphica
Nugae
In Euripidei Phaethontis fragmenta notae
Notice of satires of Juvenal and Persius
Biblical criticism
Classical criticism
Phoenician antiquities and oriental geography
Biblical criticism
On the inseperable particle 'ne'
Greek inscriptions
Adversaria literaria
On the ancient divisions of the universe
Notice on S. Slack
Specimen characteris codicis Ambrosiani
Literary intelligence
To correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]