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)

9781108058094, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

394 pages
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 28 contains the September and December issues for 1823.

Part LV. Notice of Collectanea graeca majora
Fables of Bidpai
On the various readings of the Hebrew Bible
Biblical criticism
On the Africa of Petrarch
Parallel passages
Oxford Latin prize poem
In Photii Lexicon notae
On the pyramids of Egypt
In Demosthenem commentarii
Observations on the zodiac of Dendera
Remarks, biblical and classical
Observations on the scholia of Hermeas
Récherches géographiques sur l'intérieur de l'Afrique septentrionale
Royal Society of Literature
Cambridge prize poems for 1823
The proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Great Britain
Specimens of a modern Greek translation of the Iliad
Notulae in Euripidis Medeam
Nugae
Cambridge English prize poem for 1823
De particulis
Observv. ad Tacitum
Jacobsii Notae criticae
Unedited monuments
The site of ancient Palibothra
A dissertation on Semiramis
Sandys' travels
The earliest editions of the classic authors
The earliest editions of the Bible
Adversaria literaria
Reuvens disputatio
De Arcadio Anticheno admonita quaedam
Is the nightingale the herald of the day?
Observations sur 'mekhri'
Literary intelligence
To correspondents
Part LVI. Itinerary from Tripoli to Timbuctou
Euripidou Hecuba, Orestes and Phoenissae
Parallel passags
The arithmetic of the Holy Scriptures
Observations on the zodiac of Dendera
Notice of Collectanea graeca majora
Biblical criticism
In Demosthenem commentarii
On the Africa of Petrarch
Observations on the scholia of Hermeas
Reuvens disputatio
Notice of Jewish, oriental, and classical antiquities
On the pyramids of Egypt
'Aspasiou scholion epitome'
Notulae in Euripidis Medeam
Vulgar religious opinions biblically investigated
Jones's Greek and English lexicon
Recherches grammaticales
O'Connor on ancient alphabets
That the nightingale may be a morning songstress
Puerilia
Tentamen
Notice of Elementa linguae graecae
Notice of Sophoclis Oedipus Coloneus
Adversaria literaria
Westminster prologue and epilogue for 1823
Literary intelligence
To correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]