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)

9781108056854, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

334 pages, 1 b/w illus. 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 25, comprising issues 49 and 50, was published in 1897.

Note on Rigveda I, 48 (Hymn to the dawn)
Plato's later theory of ideas
Notes on Aristotle's Politics, Book I
Emendationes Homericae
Tibulliana
Plato's later theory of ideas
Passages in the poetae lyrici
On a fragment of Solon
On the place occupied by Odysseus in Od. XXI
The site of the battle of Lake Trasimene
'hieros, hieros, hiros'
Catulliana
Horace, Odes IV, 8
On the Salinon of Archimedes
Early citations from the Book of Enoch
Lucretiana
Notes on the Homeric Hymns by J. P. D'Orville
Notes on Bücheler's Carmina Epigraphica
Silvae Manilianae Appendix
Trasimene
On passages in Plato's Philebus
Emendationes Homericae.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]