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)

9781108056847, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

340 pages, 2 maps
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 24, comprising issues 47 and 48, was published in 1896.

Various notes on Thucydides VI, VII
Homer's similes
The slaying of the suitors
On a Virgilian idiom
Plato Philebus 66 B
Plato Timaeus 51 B
The Attic civil and sacred years
The Trebbia and Lake Trasimene
The Carthaginian councils
Lucretiana
On the new Hecale fragments and other Callimachea
A contribution to the history of the Greek anthology
The new Sotadei discovered by Sayce and Mahaffy
Horace, Odes IV, 8, 15–20
Antigone ll. 891–927
New remarks on the Ibis of Ovid
The 'great lacuna' in the eighth book of Silius Italicus
Notes on Nonius
Notes on Empedocles
Notes on Solon
Notes on Clement of Alexandria
Emendationes Homericae
On the sources of the texts of S. Athanasius
On the composition of some Greek manuscripts.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]