The Classical Journal September-December 1810

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787–1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established himself in London as an editor and publisher, primarily of classical texts. Edmund Henry Barker (1788–1839), who had studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, became a contributor and then co-editor of this journal, which fuelled a scholarly feud with the editors of the Museum criticum (1813–26), a rival periodical (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Although its coverage overlapped with that of its competitor, the Classical Journal also included general literary and antiquarian articles as well as Oxford and Cambridge prize poems and examination papers. It remains a valuable resource, illuminating the development of nineteenth-century classical scholarship and academic journals. Volume 2 contains the September and December issues for 1810.

Part III. The Cambridge Greek Ode for 1810; The Latin ode, Injuriarum Africanarum finis; Latin ode on the same subject; Notice of two recent oriental publications; On the origin and progress of language and writing; On Latin supines; Fragment of Bacchylides; Oxford prize poem, Dying Gladiator; Oxford prize essay, English; Wasse on Latin scholiasts; Critical notice of Butler's Aeschylus; On Dr Hager's Murrhine vases; Critical remarks on detached passages of Tacitus; The laws of comedy; Remarks and emendations on some passages in Aristophanes; Biblical criticism; Remarks on Latin metres; Inscription on an Ionic temple, erected in Blenheim Gardens; Critical notice of Sir W. Drummond's dissertations in the Herculanensia; On hierographical language; Inscriptions found on a sarcophagus on a hill at Fenica, on the coast of Caramania; Mr Brunck's transcript; Conjecturae criticae in auctores Graecos; Of the Greek accents; Tacitus illustrated; Remarks on the Ta Tsing Leu Lee; St Luke illustrated, and Herodotus emendated; Critical remarks on detached passages of Demosthenes; Biblical criticism; Laughter not always the effect of joy; Commentarius in dialogis Euripideis; Opuscula Ruhnkeniana; Critical notice of Dr Clarke's 'Hebrew criticisms'; Critical notice of Dr Burney's Tentamen de metris; Inscriptions found at ancient Saguntum; Preparing for publication; Bibliography; Note to correspondents; Part IV. Oxford Prize Essay; Juvenal illustrated; Remarks and emendations on some passages in Aristophanes; A narrative of the last illness and death of Professor Porson; Some account of the inscription; Remarks on a passage in the 'Nux of Ovid'; Biblical criticisms; Explanation of a passage in Horace's Satires; Of the standard of taste; Classical criticisms; Grotius to Du Maurier; Grotius to James Augustus de Thou; Nugae grammaticae; Illustrations of Deuteronomy; Illustrations of Martial; Biblical criticisms; Illustrations of Isaiah; Critical remarks on Longinus; Of degrees in the universities; Remarks on Greek accents; On Latin supines; Critical notice of Dr Clarke's 'Hebrew criticisms'; Lamberti Bos dissertatio; Biblical criticism; Remarks on the English version of the Old Testament; Biblical criticism; Remarks on Sir G. Staunton's Penal Code of China; Latin poem; Conjecturae criticae in auctores Graecos; On the origin of the Greek cases; Remarks on the inscription on an Ionic temple, erected in Blenheim Gardens; Classical criticisms; Remarks on the inscriptions found at ancient Saguntum; Bibliography; Note to correspondents; General index to vols. 1 and 2.

This influential periodical, published 1810-29 and reissued here in forty volumes, was edited by the classical scholar and London publisher Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Later co-edited by Edmund Henry Barker (1788-1839), it was a rival to the Cambridge-based Museum criticum and a precursor of modern academic journals.