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)

9781108056717, 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 11, comprising issues 21 and 22, was published in 1882.

Introductory remarks on the 'Philebus'
On some epigrams of the Greek Anthology
M. Guyau on the Epicurean doctrine of free-will and atomic declination
Further notes on Homeric subjects
Notes
On the history of the words 'tetralogia' and 'trilogia'
Notes on Placidus
Lexicographical notes
Notes on the glosses quoted in Hagen's Gradus ad criticen
Conjectural emendations in the text of Aristotle and Theophrastus
Catullus 64, 276
Notes on the second book of the Iliad
On Aeschylus' Agamemnon 1227–1230
Catullus 63, 18
Inscriptions of Cilicia, Cappadocia, and Pontus
On the Mostellaria of Plautus
Propertianum
The earliest Italian literature
A neglected MS of Plato
On some alleged linguistic affinities of the Elohist
On Petronius
Two emendations in Cicero
Euripides
Euripidea
Horace Carm. I. 12, 41–44
Plato's later theory of ideas
The use and meaning of 'liceo' and 'liceor'
Horace Carm. I. 13, 1–3.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]