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)

9781108056793, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

306 pages
21.6 x 1.7 x 14 cm, 0.39 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 19, comprising issues 37 and 38, was published in 1891.

On the imitation of Homer by Apollonius Rhodius
On the iambic trimeter
Homerica
Propertius III. 18, 3–6
Palaeographica
The gerousia of Hierapolis
Notes in Latin lexicography
Adversaria
Notes on the Vatican glossary 3321
On some passages of the Silvae of Statius
Caesar's invasions of Britain
The iambic, a reply
Traces of a saying of the Didache
Traces of a saying of the Didache (cont.)
Adversaria IV
Notes on Gloss. Vat. 3321 (Goetz)
Caesar's expeditions to Britain
Caesar's invasion of Britain
The augment in Homer
On Homeric fishing-tackle
The epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians and the homilies of Antiochus Palaestinensis
Notes on the scholia of Aeschylus
On Lucretius V. 703 and the verb 'desurgere'
Notes on the Vatican Glossary 3321
Horace de arte poetica.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]