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)

9781108056908, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

330 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 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 30, comprising issues 59 and 60, was published in 1907.

The British Museum papyrus of Isocrates 'Peri Eirenes'
Some emendations of Propertius
Elision in hendecasyllables
The alphabet of Ben Sira
Conjectural emendations in the Silvae of Statius
The MSS of the Verrines
Corruption of the text of Seneca
Stoica frustula
Aristophanes, Acharnians 1093 and 1095
On an oracle in Procopius De bello Gothico I, 7
Corrections and explanations of Martial
A note on the history of the Latin hexameter
On some non-metrical arguments bearing on the date of the Ciris
Emendations and explanations.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]