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 11 contains the March and June issues for 1815.

Part XXI. On the Origin of the Druids; Etymological disquisitions; On the perfidy of the ancients; Notice of Heinrichii observationes in auctores veteres; Similarity between the English and Swedish languages; Prologus in Phormionem; Epilogus; Classical criticism; Notice of Nova chrestomathia tragica Graeco-Latina; In Carmina epodica Euripidea commentarius; Etona; The various meanings of the word 'rachia'; Extract from Herculaneum; Notice of De l'emploi des conjonctions; A Persian sonnet; Nodell epistola critica; Metrum Aeschyli Prometheo restauratum; On the Hebrew Bible; Notice of Joecher's Universal Lexicon; Gabriel Sionita; On the Greek and Latin accents; Manuscripts; The keys of life and death; Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674; Palaeographia Assyrio-Persica; Hebrew criticism; Answer to Mr Bellamy's essay; Imitative versification, ancient, and modern; Vincdicatio of Ernesti; Bentleii emendationes; Remarks on Potter's Archaeologia Graeca; Remarks on an error in the Periplus; An answer to a late book against Bentley; Epistola; Cambridge tripos for 1815; Adversaria literaria; Notice of Mathias's edition of Gray; Notice of Aeschyli Persae; Poicilographia Graeca; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part XXII. Loci quidam Luciani; Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674; On the philosophical sentiments of Aeschylus; On the fables of Aesop; On the quantity of the word 'academia'; Vindication of Ernesti; Translation from Euripides; A discourse on ancient and modern learning; Cambridge Greek poem; In Carmina epodia Aeschylea commentarius; Bentleii emendationes; On the Greek and Latin accents; Hebrew criticism; Biblical criticism; Dr Crombie's remarks; Remarks on Sir W. Drummond's dissertation; Incidental strictures on Mr Blomfield's edition of the Persae; Bibliographical topography; Notice on the Leipsic edition of Porson's Adversaria; Aeschylus and Cicero; Notice of Marini Vita Procli; Cambridge tripos paper for 1781; Cambridge tripos paper for 1809; European words derived from the Persian; A Persian sonnet; Ancient customs; Ancient Elean inscriptions; The Alcaic stanza in Horace; Works of Gibbon; Adversaria literaria; Curae posteriores; Notice of Tibullus; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents.

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.