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 14 contains the September and December issues for 1816.

Part XXVII. Cassandra; Jo. Davies; Biblical criticism; On the Horae Pelasgicae; Notice of a German treatise; Reply to Sir W. Drummond's remarks; Loci quidam Luciani; Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674; Notice of Maltby's edition of Morell's Thesaurus; Presentations at Oxford, 1814; On the Elgin Marbles; Manuscripts; Hebrew criticism; On the philosophical sentiments of Euripides; Oratio; Bentleii emendationes; Corrections in the common translation of the New Testament; Cambridge prize for 1816; Cambridge Tripos for 1816; Notice of Ouvaroff on the Eleusinian mysteries; Aristotelous Peplos; Epitaphium in Athenienses; Cambridge prize poem; Life of Dr Vincent; Professor Lennep on a passage of Propertius; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part XXVIII. De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius; Biblical synonyma; Jo. Gagnierii Ecloga; Oratio; Critique on Ossian's Temora; On the Clouds of Aristophanes; Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués; Barkeri epistola critica; Stackhousii emendationes; Barkeri epistola secunda; On the philosophical sentiments of Euripides; Peri tou phoinikos; Notice of the holy scriptures of the New Testament; Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674; Observations on Mr Roberts's reply; Inscription among the ruins of Cyretiae; The oriental MSS in Munich; The collection of the late Mr Lunn; Ode latina; Epigrammata; The similarity of worship; Prologus in Eunuchum Terentii; Greek jeu d'esprit; Curae posteriores; On the Sapphic and Alcaic metres; Notae in Arati Diosemea; Corrections in the common translation of the New Testament; Adversaria literaria; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron; Index to vol. 13 and 14.

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.