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)

9781108056892, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

282 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.36 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 29, comprising issues 57 and 58, was published in 1904.

Notes on Diogenes Laertius
The orthography of Martial's epigrams
Fulgentiana
Aristotle's conception of chemical combination
The formation of the Julian calendar, with reference to the astronomical year
The date of the crucifixion
E. B. Cowell
The Hamburg Stadtbibliothek Codex No. 1
On some passages in Aristotle's Metaphysics Lamda
Notes on Quintilian Book V
Notes on the MSS of Prudentius
On Fronto
Enoch and Clement
Notes on the pronunciation of Greek as deduced from Graeco-Indian bilingual coins
Emendationes Homericae (Od. XX–XXIV)
Metrical stopgaps in Statius' Thebaid
The Hebrew verb 'to create'
Some remarks on the later Platonism.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]