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)

9781108056755, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

318 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 15, comprising issues 29 and 30, was published in 1886.

Adversaria
On Propertius
Coniectanea
Notes in Latin lexicography
Part of the Excerpta Charisii and the fragment of De idiomatibus generum
Notes on Vergil
The historical development of classical Latin prose
Cicero, De oratore, Lib. I
Caesura in the iambic trimeters of Aeschylus
Questions ocnnected with Plato's Phaidrus
On the date of the composition of the History of Herodotus
Note on the use of the word 'polis' on Herodotus
Aeschyli Choephori
On Persian words
The battle at the Colline Gate
Platonica
On the signification of the monster Grendel in the poem of Beowulf
Miscellanea critica
Note on the early Italian huts
On Plato, Theaetetus 158e–160a
Note on Propertius I.21.1–4
A last word on Propertius I.21.1–4
On Aurelius Victor
Aristotle Politics III.2.2: Notes on Plautus, Mercator
Placidiana
Pionii vita Polycarpi 8
Suetonius Augustus 92
He enenkousa in Heliodorus
Eunapius Vit. Soph.
Eunapius p. 480
Seneca De beneficiis VI.16
Clem. Al. Strom. IV
Dierectus
The study of Latin grammar among the Romans in the first century AD
Herodotus in Egypt
Notes of a fortnight's research in the Bibliothèque nationale of Paris
On the trilogy and tetralogy in the Greek drama
Plato's later theory of ideas
William Hepworth Thompson.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]