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)

9781108058124, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

462 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 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 31 contains the March and June issues for 1825.

Part LXI. Philephi Epistolae
Notice of Cousin's '3d, 4th, and 5th books of Proclus on the Parmenides of Plato'
Notice of The Wonders of Elora
Notice of Morier's Two Journeys in Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople
Schlegel's 'History of the elephant and sphinx'
Observations on Hades
In Demosthenem commentarii
Some remarks on the value of Roman tragedy
Barkeri dissertation de variis bassis
Observations on Greek iambic, trochaic, and anapaestic verse
An inquiry into the nature of efficacy of imitative versification, ancient and modern
Notice of The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
Cambridge prize essay for 1824
Notice of An Introduction to the Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar
Subjects for themes. essays, declamations, and verses
Unpublished notes on Strabo
Porson's canons
Remarks on the Latin Alcaic and Sapphic metre, as exhibited in the odes of Horace
Literae quaedam ineditae
Oriental manuscripts and antiquities
Notice of Grammatical Parallel of the Ancient and Modern Greek Languages
Notice of Shelley's 'Translations of Homer's hymn to Mercury, and the Cyclops of Euripides'
On the pyramids of Egypt
The Porsonian canon
Oxford Latin prize poem
Nugae
Letter from Professor Boissonade
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
To correspondents
Part LXII. Hades
The Anglo-Saxon church
Notice of Peintures antiques de vases grecs
Literae quaedam ineditae
Barkeri dissertation de variis bassis
On the poems of Calphurnius and Nemesian
Notice of Cousin's '3d, 4th, and 5th books of Proclus on the Parmenides of Plato'
Puerilia
Notice of 'das heldbuch von Iran'
Notice of Iracae Persicae descriptio
Notice of Dr Young's Account of Some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature and Egyptian Antiquities
On the life and writings of Casimir
Biblical criticism
A. Couleii plantarum libri sex
Classical criticism
Notice of Fasti Hellenici
Notice of Voltaire's Thoughts, Remarks, and Observations
Classical criticism
Biblical criticism
Necrology
Adversaria literaria
Oxford English prize poem for 1825
Literary intelligence
University intelligence
To correspondents
For the purposes of education.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]