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)

9781108058117, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

438 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.55 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 30 contains the September and December issues for 1824.

Part LIX. On Embassies to China
Excerpta from the scholia of Proclus on the Cratylus of Plato
On the genius and writings of Claudian
Dissertatio de chori graecorum natura
The Meaning of St Paul, 1 Cor. xi. 10
Notice of The Life and Morals of Epicurus
Biblical criticism
Cambridge Latin essay prize
Biblical criticism
Classical improvisation
Letter from Mr Walckenaer
Obscure passages in the ancient classical writers
The mystical hymns of Orpheus
Notice of 'Daretis Phrygii historicorum libri sex'
In Demosthenem commentarii
Cambridge prize poems for 1824
Greek inscriptions from the marbles in the library of Trinity Coll., Cambridge
Litterae quaedam ineditae
Notice of Gilly's Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont
Notice of Ouseley's Travels in Persia
Oxford English prize poem
In Senecam tragicum variae lectiones
Notice of Olympia
The nightingale
Oriental literature
Literary intelligence
To correspondents
Part LX. Schlegel's 'History of the elephant and sphinx'
An excursion from Rome to Horace's Sabine farm
Cambridge English prize poem
On the pyramids of Egypt
Excerpta from the scholia of Proclus on the Cratylus of Plato
Bagster's scriptural harmony
Classical criticism
Dissertatio de chori graecorum natura
Duae Ruhnkenii epistolae ineditae
In Demosthenem commentarii
Notice of Anti-Tooke
Notice of Ouseley's Travels in Persia
Parallel passages
Latin prize poem
On the various readings of the Hebrew Bible
Emendations of the text of Plato
Barkeri dissertatio de variis bassis
The arithmetic of the Holy Scriptures
Biblical criticism
Extracts from neglected books
Is the nightingale the herald of day?
On fables, and the eastern sciences
The meaning of St Paul 1 Cor. xi. 10
Remarks on a passage of Polyaenus
Biblical criticism
Literae quaedam ineditae
Notice of Bibliotheca biblica
Notice of Acta apostolorum
Rare Arabic manuscript
Answer to letter from Mr Walckenaer
Westminster prologue and epilogue to the Phormio of Terence
Prof. Boissonade's publications
Notice of 'The death of Demosthenes'
Subject for themes
Literary intelligence
To correspondents.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]