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)

9781108058186, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

342 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 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 37 contains the March and June issues for 1828.

Part LXXIII. Notice of Sketches of Persia
Classical criticism
Bentleii emendationes ad Senecae opera
Addenda
Letters to Mr Archdeacon Travis
Sale of Drury's library
Rose's Inscriptiones graecae vetustissimae
De differentia prosae et poeticae orationis disputatio
Notices
The theology of the primitive Greeks
A critical dissertation on Romans viii. 28–31
Notice of Corpus inscriptionum graecarum
Notice of An Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language
Adversaria literaria
Oxford Latin prize poem for 1778
Literary intelligence
Correspondence
For the purposes of education
Part LXXIV. De Ventis
Dionysius of Halicarnassus as a critic and historian
A hint towards the correction of a passage in Aeschylus
Fragments of a senatus consultum in honor of Germanicus
Antique representations of Helen
Bayer and Bohusz
Some incidents in the life of Cyrillus Lucaris, patriarch of Constantinople
Extracts from negelcted books
Letters to Mr Archdeacon Travis
Biblical criticism
Extracts from Persian manuscripts
Notice of Bibliotheca classica, by Lemprière
Notice of Gymnasium, sive Symbola critica
Notice of Classical Manual
Adversaria literaria
Oxford Latin prize poem for 1801
Riddles of Professor Porson
On the prevalence of the Arabic language in Asia and Africa
Oxford Latin prize essay for 1828
Oxford Latin prize poem for 1828
Oxford English prize poem for 1828
Literary intelligence
Correspondence
For the purposes of education.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]