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), Ingram Bywater (Edited by), Henry Jackson (Edited by)

9781108056687, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

346 pages
21.6 x 2 x 14 cm, 0.44 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 8, comprising issues 15 and 16, was published in 1879.

How were the bodies of criminals at Athens disposed of after death?
Upon notices of army-surgeons in ancient Greek warfare
'Shall' and 'should' in protasis, and their Greek equivalents
Lucretius' proemium and Epicurean theology
Notes on the Aeneid
An interpretation of Is. lii, 15
A word on Lucilius
On the Dirae
On some passages in the Medea of Euripides
On some peculiarities in the use of the future participles of Greek verbs
On Choephoroe 472–3
On the MS of Sophocles in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge
The Antigone of Sophocles
Note on Odyssey V, 368
Note on Xenophon's Hellenics, I.c.VII
On the word 'bougaios' and the prefix 'bou-'
Some new Latin fragments
Judges and litigants
On early Greek written literature
Some further observations on ancient theories of causation
William George Clark
Notes on Aristophanes Acharnians 1–578
Another word on Lucilius
On the Aegritudo Perdicae
On the Pro Cluentio of Cicero
Tone and other characteristics of Chinese
On licentia poetica
On hemina sanguinis in Seneca and Jerome
On condicio and conditio
On the date and integrity of a letter ascribed to D. Brutus
Juvenal X. 54, 55
Adfectus and adfictus
The number of Plato
On the genuineness of the 'Sophist' of Plato, and on some of its philosophical bearings
Princeps or princeps senatus?
Catullus' 68th poem.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]