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)

9781108058100, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

428 pages, 4 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.54 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 29 contains the March and June issues for 1824.

Part LVII. Biblical Criticism
Itinerary from Tripoli to Cashenah
Observationes in Phrynichum Lobeckianum
Observations on the zodiac of Dendera
Carmina Samaritanorum anecdota
Notae criticae in Horatii opera
Notice of L'art de plaire d'Ovide
Theocriti quaedam
Index of passages of Menander and Apollodorus imitated by Terence
On a new edition of the polyglott Bible
Notice of Histoire de la musique
On the various readings of the Hebrew Bible
De versibus quibusdam Horatianis
Itinerary from Tripoli to Housa
Barker's Germany and Agricola of Tacitus
On the pyramids of Egypt
Sophoclis quaedam
Aspasiou scholion epitome
'Peintures antiques et inédites de vases grecs'
Nugae
A Greek inscription on a brass helmet from Olympia
Parallel passages
Latin prize poem
Notice of 'Cambridge Classical Examinations'
The scholia of Hermeas on Plato's Phaedrus
Mexican antiquity
Notice of Robertson's Latin Phrase Book
Examinations for the Classical triposes
Adversaria literaria
Notice of The Characters of Theophrastus
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents
Part LVIII. Striking Coincidences between Homer and Tasso
Notice of The Odes of Anacreon
On the genius and writings of Claudian
Remarks on the English translation of the Bible
The arithmetic of the Holy Scriptures
Is the nightingale the herald of the day?
Nugae
On the pyramids of Egypt
The scholia of Hermeas on Plato's Phaedrus
The 1st and 2d chapters of St Matthew
In Sophoclis Oedip. Colon. emendationes
Biblical criticism
Notice of A Grammar of the Three Principal Oriental Languages
Remarks on some passages in the New Testament
Muhamedan invocation
Notice of Observations on the History and Doctrine of Christianity
The mystical hymns of Orpheus
Museum in Greece
Cambridge examination for Junior Sophs.
Technical memory
Calssical criticism
De quantitate syllabarum
On the origin of Milton's Lycidas
In Demosthenem commentarii
On the error relative to the time of departure of the Israelites from Egypt
De verbo 'aktaino' vel 'aktainoo'
Litterae quaedam ineditae
Adversaria literaria
Oxford Latin prize poem
American prize poem
Notice of Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor
Literary intelligence
Notes to correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]