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 15 contains the March and June issues for 1817.

Part XXIX. Peri tou phoinikos; Collatio codicis Harleiani 5674; Desultory remarks on Juvenal; Observations on Maltby's edition of Morell's Thesaurus prosodiacus; De graecis Novi Testamenti accentibus; Klotzii Libellus; Notice of Hermanni elementa doctrinae metricae; Cambridge tripos for 1789; Latin poem; Remarks on the similarity of worship; On the caesura; On the Sapphic and Alcaic metres; On a passage of Livy; Notice of Ouvaroff on the Eleusinian mysteries; Some observations on the worship of Vesta; Adversaria literaria; Dr Crombie's remarks; Loci quidam Luciani; Notice of Sir W. Gell's Itinerary of the Morea; Sappho emendata; Prologus in Eunuchum; Epilogus; Additional remarks relating to the inscription upon the column of Diocletian at Alexandria; Extracts from Arcadius Grammaticus; Bentleii epistola; Correspondence; Annonce de Xenophon; Greek poem; Metrical lines contained in various prose classics; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part XXX. Hebrew Criticisms; On the demon of Socrates; Longevity of men of letters; On the style of the ancient Greek epigram; Barkeri epistola critica; Bibliography; on the Sapphic and Alcaic metres; Gryphiadaea; De l'improvisation poetique; Some observations on the worship of Vesta; The shipwreck of St Paul; Instance of Arabian forgery; De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius; Collatio codicis Harleiani 5674; Miscellanea classica; On the originality of Kuster's discovery; Additional remarks on Arcadius Grammaticus; Translation from Timocreon; Greek Sapphic ode; Greek and Latin epigrams; The translation of Arrian's Periplus; Researches made among the ruins of Pompeii, in 1813; Certain modern opinions respecting the Troad; Mohammedes; On the derivation of 'antea,' etc.; Stackhousii emendationes; Curae posteriores; Adversaria literaria; Encore quelques mots de la colonne de Diocletien; Greek letter of Langton; 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.