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)

9781108056885, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

302 pages, 3 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 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 28, comprising issues 55 and 56, was published in 1903.

Notes on the ontology of the Philebus
Plato Theaetetus 179 E–180 A
Adversaria
Hermas and Cebes
Emendationes Homericae
Lexicographical notes
Hermas and Cebes - a reply
Controversies in Armenian topography
The Lex de imperio Vespasiani
Notes on Clement of Alexandria III
Xenophon Cynegeticus XII, 6
The date and origin of pseudo-Anatolius De ratione Paschali
Tibulliana
Plutarch de Pythiae oraculis
Oxford MSS of the 'Opuscula' of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Platonica
The homily of pseudo-Clement
On the Hisperica Famina
On the geometrical problem in Plato's Meno
Aristotelia
The text of the Hebrew Bible in abbreviations
Controversies in Armenian topography, II
Note on Proverbs VII, 22
Darkness the privation of light, night the absence of day.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]