The Classical Journal

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 8 contains the September and December issues for 1813.

Part XV. On Ancient Geography; Notice of Animadversiones in Hymnis Homericos; On the sortes sanctorum; On the Buchanan Roll of the Pentateuch; Notice of Aeschyli Tragoediae; Classical criticism; On the quantity of 'nun' in comic verse; Short syllables; Two orations spoken at Oxford in the 17th century; Biblical criticism; Anecdotes of remarkable females; Inscriptions found at Saguntum; Gregorii Nazianzeni epigrammata; Carmina Homerica; Remarks on Longinus; Critical remarks on the Hippolytus Stephanephorus; Professor Porson vindicated; Reply on the Asonas of Theophylact; Aeschylus's Seven against Thebes; Biblical criticism; The power of the Hebrew Gnain; Vindication of Virgil; On the Hebrew Bible; Biblical criticism; Isokratou logos; Notice of Pherecydis fragmenta; Notice of Lagunae epistola; Recondite meanings of 'ruere'; Notice of Nisseni Curae novissimae; Books illustrative of the Bible and the classics; Derivation of the word 'mosaic'; Latin inscription; In tragicorum carmina monostropha commentarius; Manuscripts; Oxford prize poem; Hermogenis Progymnasmata; Biblical criticism; Observations on Persius; Notice of Bibliotheca Classica; Notes on Aeschylus; Inscription at Beroot; Notice of Schleusneri Opuscula; A defence of public schools; Euripidis Hercules furens; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part XVI. On the origin of the druids; Account of the Wahhabis; Animadversiones in Juvenalis Satiras; Fontes quos Tacitus videatur sequutus; Inquiry into the etymology of 'peor'; Biblical criticism; On the Platonic use of 'kinduneuein'; Heumannus de summo bono; Arabian anecdote; Analecta critica; Calssical criticism; Carmina Homerica; A sketch of modern and ancient geography for the use of schools; On the republication of Castell's Aethiopic lexicon; On the repetition of certain words; On a verse of Aeschylus; Heliodorus born a Christian and not pagan; Critical remarks on Racine; Thesaurus criticus novus; The construction of 'macte'; Interpretatio, ex variis auctoribus collecta; The number seven; On the study of the Christian Fathers; An essay on the Hebrew points; Classical criticism; On Dr Hales's chronology; De nomininbus graecorum libellus; On Mr Boothroyd's Hebrew Bible; The German translation of Josephus; Winchester English prize poem; Adversariorum criticorum specimen; Latin poem; Observationes in Euripidis Heraclidas; Fragment of Longus; Drummond's 'Essay concerning the Shield of Achilles'; Biblical criticism; Prologus in Adelphos; Epilogus; Euripidis Supplices; A defence of pubic schools; Manuscripts; Literary intelligence; Westminster abbey; Account of the classical works sold at Dr Gosset's sale; Prospectuses of new works; Notes to correspondents; Index to vols. 7 and 8.

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.