The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology

This 1859 publication, comprising the final issues of this short-lived academic journal, 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)

9781108053549, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 August 2012

400 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 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) 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 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 4, published in 1859, contains the 1857–9 issues.

Part X: 1. Latin-English and English-Latin lexicography
2. Multiformity of English words
3. 'They that are of Caesar's household'
Adversaria
Notices of new books
Content of foreign journals
List of new books
Announcements
Part XI: 1. Mrs Lucie Hutchinson's translation of Lucretius
2. Platonica, Isocratea
3. Notes on some corrupt and obscure passages in the Helena of Euripides
4. De particularis ge et ei ge
Adversaria
Notices of new books
Content of foreign journals
List of new books
Announcements
Part XII: 1. Greek archaeology and topography
2. Emendations in the psalms
3. The Emmaus of S. Luke
4. The works of Virgil, with a commentary by John Conington
5. Lucretius, Catullus and Virgil
6. On the Long Walls at Athens
7. On an ancient Latin version of Theodore of Mopsuestia's lost commentary on ten of St Paul's epistles
8. Aristophanes
9. Hyperides
10. On the authority of the Germania of Tacitus for the ethnology of Germany
11. Map of the Holy Land
Correspondence
Reviews
Index.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]