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)

9781108056823, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

326 pages
21.6 x 1.9 x 14 cm, 0.42 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 22, comprising issues 43 and 44, was published in 1894.

The shortening of long syllables on Plautus
The prosody of Mico the Levite
Euripides. Two suggestions on the Iphigenia in Aulis
A suggestion on prop. II. 34, 29, 30
Bentley's notes on the Odyssey
Iphigenia and hekatombe
On the manuscripts of Aeschylus
Propert. IV.3, 35–38
Ennius Ann. 307–310
Scaliger's unpublished emendations on Nonius (cont.)
The manuscripts of Propertius (cont.)
The chronology of the Corinthian war
On Book XV of Ovid's Metamorphoses
On the composition of some Greek manuscripts
Visio Pauli
Bentley's notes on the Odyssey (cont.)
The chronology of Xenophon's Hellenica, 387 to 362 BC
Two new MSS in the British Museum
On some passages from the poetae scenici
Note on the fourth Pythia
Some new papyri from Apollonopolis
A collation of from two to six MSS of the Revelation of St John
Annotations on Valerius Flaccus
The Escorial excerpts from Aetna.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]