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)

9781108058148, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

372 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 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 33 contains the March and June issues for 1826.

Part LXV. Letters of Gesner
Notice of A Manual of Classical Bibliography
Notice of The Prophecy of Ezekiel
Biblical criticism
Deuxième inscription du voyage de Fr. Cailliou
Remarks of Seyer on Seager
Westminster prologue and epilogue for 1825
Drummond's Origines
Nugae
Remarks on the Phoenician and Punic languages
Observations on Gilly's Narrative of an Excursion
Griesbach in sacred criticism
Persian ingenuity
Notice of 'Castilioni carmina'
Various rendering of passages in the New Testament
Cambridge triposes for 1826
Literary intelligence
To correspondents
For the purposes of education
Part LXXVI. Some Remarks on the Value of Roman Tragedy
Emendationes miscellae
Oxford Latin prize essay for 1825
Observations on Gilly's Narrative of an Excursion
Notice of The Typographical Gazetteer
Notice of The Songs of Greece
Cambridge triposes for 1826
Biblical criticism
Notice of Flavii Merobaudis reliquiae
Notice of Castilioni carmina
Drummond's Origines
Notice of Numismata orientalia illustrata
Inscriptiones graecae vetustissimae
Notice of Ancient Unedited Monuments of Grecian Art
Notice of The History of the Reformation under Henry VIII
The late venerable bishop of Durham
Notice of Photii bibliotheca
Literary intelligence
For the purposes of education.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]