The Journal of Philology

Published between 1868 and 1920, this 35-volume set illuminates the development of specialised academic journals as well as classical philology.

William Aldis Wright (Edited by), John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (Edited by), William George Clark (Edited by)

9781108056618, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

340 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.43 kg

Founded in 1868 by the Cambridge scholars John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825–1910), William George Clark (1821–78), and William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), this biannual journal was a successor to The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Unlike its short-lived precursor, it survived for more than half a century, until 1920, spanning the period in which specialised academic journals developed from more general literary reviews. Predominantly classical in subject matter, with contributions from such scholars as J. P. Postgate, Robinson Ellis and A. E. Housman, the journal also contains articles on historical and literary themes across the 35 volumes, illuminating the growth and scope of philology as a discipline during this period. Volume 1, comprising issues 1 and 2, was published in 1868.

On chthonian worship
On Fronto
On the fragments attributed to Philolaus the Pythagorean
On parts of Ribbeck's Prolegomena critica to his edition of Virgil
On a Hindu version of the story of Rhampsinitus, Herod. II, 121
On the fragments of Aeschylus
On a passage of Hesychius
Emendations on two passages of Aeschylus
On 'gignesthai, gignoskein', on 'storge, eros, philein, agapan', and on an irregular formation of the Greek passive verb
Caius or Hippolytus?
On Lucretius
On the original configuration of the Palatine Hill and on the Pomoerium of Romulus
On a passage of Andocides
Conjectures on Thucydides
On the growth and development of language
Remarks on Mr Jebb's article on a passage of Andocides
On Mr Davies' Agamemnon of Aeschylus
On two neglected facts bearing on the Ignatian controversy
On the meaning of Hebrew root
On a recently discovered Latin poem of the fourth century
On Arist. Probl. 19, 12
On English pronunciation of Greek
On some passages of the Saxon laws
On the stone used in the construction of the Cloaca Maxima at Rome
On parts of Ribbeck's Prolegomena critica to his edition of Virgil (cont.)
Notes on passages in the Trachiniae, Thucydides, Propertius, and Juvenal
On Sophocles' Electra, vv. 1288–1292
Note on 1 Corinthians 1, 26
Inscription found at Sérancourt
Note on Fronto.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]