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)

9781108056915, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

326 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 1.9 x 14 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 31, comprising issues 61 and 62, was published in 1910.

Emendations and explanations
Plutarch Cebes and Hermas
On Martial VII, 79 and XII, 55
Adversaria, VI
Veritatis pater
Notes on Catullus and Lucretius
Metempsychosis and variation in species in Plato
On Aristotle Physics Z
The battle of Lake Trasimene
Tacitus as a military historian in the Histories
Adversaria VII
Towards a recension of Propertius
Atakta, II
Dictys of Crete and Homer
'Horan' in Aeschylus etc.
Greek nouns in Latin poetry from Lucretius to Juvenal
Clemens Alexandrinus, Stromateis IV, v. 23
Were the Lex Thoria and the Lex agraria of 111 BC reactionary laws?
Notes on Quintus Smyrnaeus
French glosses in the Leipsic MS no. 102 (13th cent.) from the commentary on Job.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]