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 18 contains the September and December issues for 1818.

Part XXXV. On the Science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans; Notae et curae sequentes in Arati Diosemea; Oxford prize poem; An essay on the Greek pastoral poets; Loci quidam Luciani; The similarity of worship in different parts of the pagan world; Persii satirae; Lines on the death of Princess Charlotte of Wales; Vindiciae antiquae; Oxford prize poems for 1818; Duport's Greek prayer book; Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall; Some orations attributed to Cicero; Notae aliquot in Horatium; Notice of Le Philologue; Stackhousii emendationes; Col. Leake's remarks on the Trojan controversy; On Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Bible; On the origin of the term 'middle'; Cambridge Tripos; Hermanni censura; Cambridge prizes for 1818; Adversaria literaria; Biblical criticism; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part XXXVI. A Reply to the Quarterly Review; Miscellanea classica; Observations on some orations ascribed to Cicero; Manuscripts; Ho basilikos hymnos; Biblical criticism; An essay on the Greek pastoral poets; On the science of the Egyptians and Chaldeans; Loci quidam Luciani; Oxford prize essay; The philosophy of Aristotle; Miscella critica; Letter of Mr Gail on Theocritus; Letters on the ancient British language of Cornwall; Obscure word in Lycophron; Egyptian embalmers; De carminibus Aristophanis commentarius; Porsoni notae ineditae; On the Greek Sapphic ode; Observations on Hermann's review of Stephens' Thesaurus; Oxford prize poem; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Index to vols. 17 and 18.

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.