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)

9781108058216, 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 40 contains the September and December issues for 1829.

To the reader
Part LXXIX. Lee's Answer to Some Articles
On the epic poetry of the Romans
Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan
Life of Parr
On the mysteries of Eleusis
Gaisford's Herodotus
Cambridge prize poems for 1829
Oxford prize poems for 1829
Russell's Connections of Sacred and Profane History
Egyptian antiquities
Oxford English prize essay
Nugae
Adversaria literaria
Literary intelligence
For the purposes of education
Part LXXX. On the Etymology and Formation of Certain Classes of Latin Words
Ohsson's Des peuples du Caucase
Bekker's Aristotle
Life of Parr
On the mysteries of Eleusis
Lee's answer to some articles
The Mandarin tongue at Loo-Choo
Extracts from some of the lost works of Aristotle, Xenocrates, and Theophrastus
Adversaria literaria
Archaeological institute of Rome
School and college Greek classics, with English notes, examination questions and indexes
Westminster prologue and peilogue for 1829
Literary intelligence
Correspondence
An index to all the various articles contained in the Classical Journal from no. 1 to 80
For the purposes of education.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]