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 17 contains the March and June issues for 1818.

Part XXXIII. Notice of the Origin of Pagan Idolatry; On literary coincidences; On the science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans; Remarks on the Prometheus of Aeschylus; Miscellanea classica; Modern Greek proverbs; Notae et curae sequentes in Arati Diosemea; Annotationes in Sophoclis Antigonam; On the particle 'an'; An essay on the Geek pastoral poets; Greek dialects; Littérature grecque; Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674; On the character of Plutarch as a historian; Vindiciae antiquae; Collection of the Chaldean Oracles; Observations on some orations ascribed to Cicero; Biblical criticism; Monuments of Aristotle; Orphic remains; Bishop Pearson's minor tracts; On M. Gail's Recherches; On a geometrical query in Plato's Meno; Sketch of the life, character, and philosophy, of Anaxagoras; Variae lectiones Aeschyli; Strada's contest of the musician and the nightingale; Notice of Histoire chronologique de l'art du dessin; Manuscripts; Variae lectiones ad Euripidem; Stanleii notae quaedam in Callimachum; Remarks to prove that Josephus is a historian and apologist of the gospel; Herculanensian papyra; Adversaria literaria; Examinations for the classical medals at Cambridge; Mola iuventutis restauratrix; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part XXXIV. Mr Bellamy's Specimen of his Emendation of the Bible; Cambridge tripos 1813; Collection of Chaldean oracles; Observations on some lines of Homer; Bishop Pearson's works; Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674; On literary coincidences; Latin prize essay; Ptolemy; The site of Palibothra; Barkeri epistola critica; Loci quidam Luciani; Vindiciae antiquae; Variae lectiones; Miscellanea classica; Stanleii notae quaedam in Callimachum; Commentatio ad inscriptionem Actiacam; Observations on some orations ascribed to Cicero; Professor Duport's Greek prayer book; Lexicography; Biblical criticism; The library of the late Dr C. Burney; Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall; Adversaria literaria; 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.