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)

9781108056700, 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 10, comprising issues 19 and 20, was published in 1882.

Archaeological interpretations
On certain engineering difficulties in Thucydides' account of the escape from Plataea
On the first seven verses of the Antigone
On some fragments of the New Comedy, and some passages of Aeschylus, Theognis, Alcaeus and Ibycus
The Homeric trial-scene
Note on Xenophon, De vect. IV, 14
Note on Plato, Apol. Socr., p. 26
Notes on gender, especially in Indo-European languages
Atakta
Notes on some passages in the Politics
Observations on the Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles
Old German glosses from a Bodleian manuscript
Traces of different dialects in the language of Homer
On some difficulties in the Platonic psychology
On Plato's Republic Vi, 509 D
Aesch. Ag. 115–120
Thilo's Servius
Pyrrhus in Italy
Biology and social science
Horatiana
On a passage in the Rhetorica ad Herennium
Dissignare
The chronology of the Book of Kings
On the text and interpretation of certain passages in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus
On the fragments of Euripides
Plato's later theory of ideas
The simile of the treacherous hound in the Agamemnon
Aristotle, Politics, IV (VII), 13.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]