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)

9781108058155, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

344 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.44 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 34 contains the September and December issues for 1826.

Part LXVII. Confession of Faith of Cyrillus Lucaris
Various renderings of passages in the New Testament
Philippi de Romanis ode Romae condita
Puerilia
Nugae
Notice of Nugae hebraicae
Vita S. Antonii, Athanasio auctore
Extracts from neglected books
Notice of Plauti comoediae
Biblical criticism
The Masora
Cambridge English prize poem for 1826
Remarks on ancient chronology
Cambridge prize poems for 1826
Necrology
Sallustianarum lectionum symbola
Rare persian romances
On Luther's letters
Notice of Bibliotheca critica nova
Notice of Rose's Ancient Greek Inscriptions
On the pronunciation of Greek
Literary intelligence
To correspondents
For the purposes of education
Part LXVIII. Lectures on Poetry
Ancient horsemanship
Some observations respecting Africa
Nugae
The Masora
Remarks on ancient chronology etc.
A query respecting Absyrtus
Remarks on the apocryphal books of scripture
An inquiry into the credit due to Dionysius of Halicarnassus
The Prometheus of Aeschylus and the Book of Enoch
Notice of Taxatio papalis
On the confession of faith of Cyrillus
Notice of Greek Exercises
Westminster prologue and epilogue for 1826
Notice of Rose's Ancient Greek Inscriptions
Notice of A Compendious Introduction to the Study of the Bible
Verses of Professor Boettiger
Correspondence
Literary intelligence
For the purposes of education.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]