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)

9781108058131, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

388 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.49 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 32 contains the September and December issues for 1825.

Part LXIII. Is the First Philippic of Demosthenes One Oration, or Two?
On the stereotype printing and Porson Greek type at Cambridge University Press
Quisquiliae
Notice of Sir W. Jones' Grammar of the Persian Language
Adversaria literaria
Notice of The Birds of Aristophanes
Some remarks on the value of Roman tragedy
Biblical criticism
Oxford Latin prize poem, 1776
Notice of A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems
Biblical criticism
Notice of A Narrative of a Journey into Persia, and Residence at Teheran
Clinton's civil and literary chronology of Greece
Cambridge English prize poem for 1825
Literary notices concerning Cicero's lost treatise De gloria
Oratio in collegii regalis medicorum aedibus novis habita
Notice of an essay on Young's and Champollion's phonetic system of hieroglyphics
Biblical criticism
Oriental manuscripts
Ancient inscriptions discovered at Cyrene
Notice of Milton, De doctrina Christiana libri duo
Puerilia
Collatio cod. MS Homeri Odysseae
Literary intelligence
For the purposes of education
Part LXIV. Analysis of Faber's corroboration of the Pentateuch
Cambridge prize poems for 1825
Porsonian prize
Biblical criticism
Original Persian letters
Biblical criticism
Some remarks on the value of Roman tragedy
Notice of Milton, De doctrina Christiana libri duo
Biblical criticism
Nugae
Notice of Institutes of Christian Perfection
Notice of Maps and Plans Illustrative of Herodotus
Explication d'une inscription grecque en verse
Notice of Ancient Unedited Monuments
Biblical criticism
The Rev. W. Benwell
Göttling's 'Essay on the theory of Greek accentuation'
Notice of Gesenius' Hebrew lexicon
Notice of Epigrammata
Première inscription du voyage de Fr. Cailliou
Belzoni's Egyptian tomb
Hermann 'In nuptiis Maximiliani principis Saxoniae'
Poem of Schlegel
Literary intelligence
To correspondents
For the purposes of education.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]