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

9781108056663, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

322 pages
21.6 x 1.8 x 14 cm, 0.41 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 6, comprising issues 11 and 12, was published in 1876.

Theophrastus 'peri nomon'
The last elegy of the third or second book of Propertius
Seneca's tragedies
Emendation of a passage in Propertius
Notes on certain derivations
Origin of the word 'gypsy'
On the word 'glamour' and the legend of 'Glam'
Heraclitus and Ammianus Marcellinus
Miscellaneaous notes
Duumviri and triumviri, saeculum, superstes, superstitio, superstitiosus
On dislocation in the text of the fifth book of the [Nicomachean] Ethics
On pseudo-archaic words and inflexions in the Homeric vocabulary, and their relation to the antiquity of the Homeric poems
Note on Isaiah VIII–X
Note on a passage of Plato Soph. 262 D
The hastamalaka
Conjectural emendation of the Samaritan Targum on Gen. XIV, 5
Notes on (1) to save appearances, (2) In puris naturalibus
Notes on the Ajax of Sophocles
Note on Plato, Theaetetus 207 E
On the so-called Arabicus mons
On Eth. Nic. II, 7
The legend of the Chapman of Swaffham church
Modern Greek ballads from Corsica
On Aristotle, Metaph. I, 1, 6
On a MS of the Nicomachean Ethics
Notes by the late Professor T.H. Key
On the position of the guests at a Roman dinner-table
On the northern Buddhist legend of Avalokiteswara's descent into the hell Avichi
Notes upon (1) the root 'ak', (2) the root 'magh', (3) the root 'are'
Notes on the edition of Select Private Orations of Demosthenes by Paley and Sandys
Notes on a passage in Cicero, Orator, c. 48
Some remarks on the Gothic particle '-h', '-uh'
On the quantity of 'hoc'
On the Aratea of Germanicus
On three Greek epigrams in Vitruvius
On 'arcesso' and 'accerso'
On Plato, Soph. 262 D
On Greek lexicography
Notes on Virgil.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]