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)

9781108058193, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

354 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 38 contains the September and December issues for 1828.

Part LXXV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus as a Critic and Historian
Translation of Athenaeus
Notice of Letters Addressed to a Young Person in India
Notice of A Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia
Notice of 'An essay on ancient coins'
De versibus spuriis apud Aeschylum
Letters to Mr Archdeacon Travis
Oxford English prize essay for 1827
Notices of foreign works
Parriana
Oxford Latin prize poem for 1782
Adversaria literaria
Letters on the authorship of Junius
Literary intelligence
Correspondence
For the purposes of education
Part LXXVI. Notice of Researches into the Origin and Affinity of the Principal Languages of Asia and Europe
Extracts from neglected books
An inquiry into the truth of history
Cambridge prize poems for 1828
Necrology
Philological remarks on Greek, Latin, and Celtic words
Notice of Cardwell's Nichomachean ethics
Laudes Suttonianae
Oxford Latin prize poem for 1827
Adversaria literaria
Prologue and epilogue to the Adelphi of Terence
Notice of Viger's Greek Idioms
Notices of foreign works
Literary intelligence
Correspondence
For the purposes of education.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]