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)

9781108058179, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

338 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.43 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 36 contains the September and December issues for 1827.

Part LXXI. Bertius's Ptolemy
An inquiry into the credit due to Dionysius of Halicarnassus
On grammar
Is Lycophron author of the Cassandra?
A familiar exposition of the doctrine representing the Trinity
Analysis of the first Mosaic record
Biblical criticism
Notice of Researches on the Tenets and Doctrines of the Jeynes and Boodhists
Anecdotes of eastern bibliography
On the Chremonidian war
Homer and Shakespeare
Biblical criticisms
Bibliography
Cambridge prize poems for 1827
Bibliotheca Parriana
The decalogue
Adversaria literaria
Sale of Drury's library
Literary intelligence
Correspondence
For the purposes of education
Part LXXII. Latin Poem
Sale of Drury's library
Some incidents in the life of Cyrillus Lucaris, patriarch of Constantinople
Magic of the ancient Greek and Romans
The ancient Roman distinction of patrician and plebeian
An inquiry into the credit due to Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Letters to Mr Archdeacon Travis
Collatio codicis manuscripti Homeri Odysseae
Curae posteriores ad Dawesii miscellanea
A brother of the poet Alcaeus
Illuminated manuscripts
Classical and oriental library and museum
Notice of Greek gradus
Literary intelligence
Correspondence
For the purposes of education.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]