The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology

The 1855 issues of a short-lived academic journal, published the same year, illuminates classics and theology in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Edited by), Fenton John Anthony Hort (Edited by), John Eyton Bickersteth Meyer (Edited by)

9781108053525, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 August 2012

398 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.5 kg

Contemporaries as Cambridge undergraduates in the late 1840s, Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–89), Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–92), and John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825–1910) all went on to distinguished careers. Mayor, a classical scholar, became President of St John's, while Lightfoot and Hort - members, along with Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), later Regius Professor of Divinity, of the 'Cambridge triumvirate' - were eventually appointed respectively Bishop of Durham and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. This short-lived triannual journal, which they founded and edited from 1854 to 1859, is interesting both for its combination of classical and patristic material, illuminating the close relationship between theology and classics as disciplines in the period, and as an example from the early history of academic journals, an emerging genre which would develop into its current form over the following decades. Volume 2, published in 1855, contains the year's three issues.

Part IV: 1. On the probable connexion of the Rhaetians and Etruscans with the Thracian stock of nations
2. A plea for Greek accents
3. On a passage in the Muratorian canon
4. The Egyptian month Adrian
5. On the date of the composition of Herodotus's History
6. Nichomachean Ethics, Book V: Eudemian Ethics, Book IV
Adversaria
Anecdota
Correspondence
Notices of new books
Content of foreign journals
List of new books
Part V: 1. On the sophistic rhetoric
2. On the probable connexion of the Rhaetians and Etruscans with the Thracian stock of nations (cont.)
3. On Aesch. Choeph. 278–296
4. On some passages in Sophocles
5. The mission of Titus to the Corinthians
Adversaria
Correspondence
Notices of new books
Content of foreign journals
List of new books
Part VI: 1. On the origin and meaning of Roman names
2. Latin-English lexicography
3. On the borders of the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali
4. Observations on Mr Law's 'Criticism of Mr Ellis's new theory concerning the route of Hannibal'
Adversaria
Notices of new books
Content of foreign journals
List of new books
Index.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]