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)

9781108058162, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

350 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.45 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 35 contains the March and June issues for 1827.

Part LXIX. Cambridge Latin Essay Prize for 1826
Antrum vocitanum
Aphorsms etc. of Dr Parr
Notice of Millingen's Ancient Unedited Monuments
Nugae
An inquiry into the credit due to Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Jones' Persian Grammar
Rhodian inscription
Biblical criticisms
Oxford Latin prize poem for 1772
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
For the purposes of education
Part. LXX. Rabbinical Factions and Sea-Monsters
An analysis of the roots and derivatives of the Hebrew language
The Chorizontes
Adversaria literaria
Cambridge Latin prize essay for 1780
Biblical criticism
Analysis of the first Mosaic record
An inquiry into the credit due to Dionysius of Halicarnassus
De Aeschyli Heliadibus
The study of the Hebrew language recommended
On the Hellenica of Xenophon
Notice of Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom
Oxford Latin prize poem for 1791
Miscellanea classica
Notice of Bibliotheca Sussexiana
Literary intelligence
Correspondence
For the purposes of education.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]