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)

9781108058209, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

374 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 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 39 contains the March and June issues for 1829.

Part LXXVII. On Compound Words in the Ancient Languages
Observations on the power of the 'ictus metricus'
Zend and Pahlavi manuscripts
An inquiry into the truth of history
Letters to Mr Archdeacon Travis
On the situation of the Hades of Homer
Letters on the authorship of Junius's letters
Biblical criticism
Corruption of demiurgus
On the writings of Ausonius
Notice of Travels in Arabia
Notice of Corpus inscriptionum graecarum
Notice of Thesaurus tes hellenikes glosses
Notice of He kaine diatheke
Oxford Latin prize poem for 1775
Notice of variorum edition of Plato
Notices of foreign works
Literary intelligence
Correspondence
For the purposes of education
Part LXXVIII. Additional Notice of Cardwell's Nichomachean Ethics
On the difference in the chronology of the Samaritan and Greek versions and the Hebrew text of the scriptures
'Corpus inscriptionum graecarum'
Selections from Bayly's Psyche
The ancient fragments
Pettigrew's Bibliotheca Sussexiana
Classical criticism
Nugae
The travels of Ibn Batuta
An inquiry into the truth of hsitory
On the mysteries of Eleusis
On the epic poetry of the Romans
Classical criticism
Adversaria literaria
Foreign works
Literary intelligence
Correspondence
For the purposes of education.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]