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)

9781108056748, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

300 pages
21.6 x 1.7 x 14 cm, 0.38 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 14, comprising issues 27 and 28, was published in 1885.

Genesis XLIX, 10: an exegetical study
Notes in Latin lexicography
Notes on the Epinal glossary
Aristotelia, II
Critical notes, chiefly on the Menaechmi of Plautus
Adversaria
New suggestions on the Ibis
H. A. J. Munro
1 Maccabees III, 48
On the forms of divination and magic enumerated in Deut. XVIII, 10, 11
Note on Matt. XXVII, 27–30
Miscellanea
On certain difficulties with regard to the Greek tetralogy
The prytaneum, the temple of Vesta, the Vestals, perpetual fires
Plato's later theory of ideas, V
'Epein' and 'epesthai'
On three corrupt passages in Catullus
The season and extent of the travels of Herodotus in Egypt
Lexicographical notes
Propertius I, xxi.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]