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)

9781108056724, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

310 pages
21.6 x 1.8 x 14 cm, 0.4 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 12, comprising issues 23 and 24, was published in 1883.

Notes on the text of Cicero De natura deorum, Book II
The Cleophons in Aristotle
Note on Tacitus, Hist. V.5
Errein in Homer and in an Olympian inscription
The age of Homer
The De arte poetica of Horace
On some passages of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Notes on Placidus, Nonius, etc.
The nuptial number. Plato Rep. VIII p. 246
Notes upon the Poetics of Aristotle
Indian folklore notes from the Pali Jatakas and the Katha Sarit Sagara
Lucretius' argument for free-will
On a metrical canon in Greek tragedy
Ibis 539
On the Nubes of Aristophanes
Notes in Latin lexicography
The Buddhist original of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
An uncollated MS of the 'Ad Herennium'
The physical constitution of the Epicurean gods
The Merton codex of Cicero's De natura deorum
On the Truculentus
Note on Petronius, c. 43
Note on Propertius IV.5. 61, 2
Babriana
Note on Juvenal XII. 129, 130
Note on Gal. III. 28
Alexander in Afghanistan
The Greek numerical alphabet
Miscellanea Homerica
Latin inscription from Nicopolis
Note on Plato, Theaetetus 190 c
Note on Exodus IX. 31, 32.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]