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)

9781108058087, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

398 pages, 1 map
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 27 contains the March and June issues for 1823.

Part LIII. New Ilium and the Troy of Homer
Nugae
On the fables of Aesop and Babrias
Notice of Peyron
Creuzer's edition of Olympiodorus
In Demosthenem commentarii
The classical collector's vade-mecum
On the liberty of prophesying
The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology
Is the nightingale the herald of the day?
Hebrew criticism
English Latinity
Earliest printed editions of the Hebrew Bible
African fragments
Biblical criticism
Horne's Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures
Barker's reply to Boiotos
Oxford Latin prize poem for 1821
On the attributes that constitute the perfection of being
Notice of Journal of a Tour in the Levant
'To asma tou Kolokotrone'
Observationes quaedam ad N. T.
Westminster prologue and epilogue for Dec. 1822
Morelli epistola
H. Grotii carmen
Adversaria literaria
Classical criticism
Cambridge triposes for 1823
Literary intelligence
To correspondents
Part LIV. Critical Observations on Some Latin Authors
Barkeri De Arcadio Antiocheno
A plan for translating languages without study
In Demosthenem commentarii
The meekness of Moses considered
On the attributes that constitute the perfection of being
Observationes quaedam ad N. T.
A reply to Gulchin
African fragments
The arithmetic of the Holy Scriptures
Notice of Thucydide
A controverted passage in Justin Martyr
On the genius and writings of Claudian
Leake's Topography of Athens
Barkeri Amoenitates philosophicae
On the materials for a history of ancient Persia
Embalming among the Egyptians
Idyllia heroica decem
Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persepolitan writing
Oxford English prize poem for 1823
'Institutes of Latin grammar'
'Scripture chronology'
'Essais su les prepositions'
Sophocles et Theocritus emendati
Critica sacra
Dr Crombie's Gymnasium
Biblical criticism
'Canares: a poem in modern Greek'
Notice of Photius the Patriarch
Oxford Latin prize poem
Adversaria literaria
Knight's Carmina Homerica
List of theological works
Biblical criticism
Literary intelligence
To correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]