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)

9781108056830, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

334 pages
21.6 x 1.9 x 14 cm, 0.43 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 23, comprising issues 45 and 46, was published in 1895.

Exceprts from the Culex in the Escorial MS
Further suggestions on the Aetna
On Herodas
Did Augustus create eight new legions during the Pannonian rising?
Thucydides and the Sicilian expedition
Plato, Phaedo, ch. XLVIII
ede and de in Homer
On the text of M. Aur. Antoninus Ta eis heauton
The later Platonism
A supplement to the apparatus criticus of Claudian
Duals in Homer
New details from Suetonius's life of Lucretius
On the date of the Apotelesmatika of Manetho
On the Codex Pamphili and date of Euthalius
Various conjectures III.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]