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 13 contains the March and June issues for 1816.

Part XXV. Cassandra; De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius; Criticism on the Poetics of Aristotle; On a Greek epigram; Hebrew criticism; Notice of Fragmenta Basmurico-Coptica; Loci quidam Luciani; Classical criticism; Momi miscellanea subseciva; Essay on triposes; Bishop Pearson's minor tracts; Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674; On the Elean inscription; Prologus in Phormionem; Epilogus; The 24th book of the Odyssey; On the Greek and Latin accents; On the monument of Comosarya; Bentleii emendationes; Corrections in the common translation of the New Testament; Inscriptions remarquables; Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués; Authors ancient and modern; De fragmentis poetarum minorum; Latin poem; Notice of Shütz's edition of Euripidou Phoinissae; The present state of Tempe; Apologia; Biblical criticism; Notice of De officiis; Adversaria literaria; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; XXVI. Life of Dr Vincent; Mr Bellamy's answer; Bentleii emendationes; Classical criticism; Imitative versification, ancient and modern; On the ancient Zabii; Klotzii Libellus; Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human character; Analyse du premier volume de Pausanias; Inscription at Skripu; Bentleii emendationes; On epitaphs; Observations on some idioms of the Greek language; Catalogue of Joshua Barnes's works; Biblical criticism; Notice of Phaedrus; De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius; De fragmentis poetarum minorum Gr.; Latin poem; Notice of Ouvaroff on the Eleusinian mysteries; Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués; Remarks on the similarity of worship; Professor Lennep's conjecture on Propertius; Biblical and classical criticism; Gwawd Lludd y Mawr; Answer to Dr Crombie's remarks; Hebrew criticism; Adversaria literaria; Emendationes in Aelianum; 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.