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 23 contains the March and June issues for 1821.

Part XLV. The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology; A future immortal existence; Classical criticism; On Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Bible; Latin poems; Sylva, or silva; Classical criticism; On the mythology of the Greeks; Miscellanea classica; A short account of the library at Vienna; Disputatio de linguae graecae pronunciatione; Prologue and epilogue to the Phormio of Terence; Oxford prize poem; Observations on Boissonade; Classical criticism; Palibothra, and the Golden Fleece; Oriental literature; De origine et vi verborum deponentium; Barkeri Amoenitates philosophicae; Sketch of the character of Thomas Dempster; On Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Bible; Prize Greek poem; Biblical criticism; Of the Latin historians before Livy; Thucydides misquoted; Notes on some parts of Potter's Antiquities of Greece; Greek inscriptions; On the metrical canons of Porson; Brief notice of Cousin's Procli opera; Adversaria literaria; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part XLVI. Oriental Customs; Oxford prize Latin poem; Amoenitates philosophicae; On the genius and writings of Claudian; On the manners of the heroic ages; Notice sur les Découvertes philologiques; 'The elements of Greek prosody and metre'; Antiquarian intelligence; The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology; Latin poem; The collation of Syriac MSS; A short account of the library at Munich; Notae et curae sequentes in Arati Diosemea; Etymologicl researches; On the monuments of Cicero; Classical criticism; Emendation of a passage in Livy, iii. 5; African fragments; An Arabic paper relevant to Mungo Park's death; Notes on some parts of Potter's Antiquities of Greece; Miscellanea classica; The villas of Cicero; Critical remarks on the fragments of Sappho, Alcaeus, and Stesichorus; On the word silva, or sylva; Biblical criticism; Notes on Longinus; A specimen of a translation of Telemachus; Bibliography; On the origin, progress, prevalence, and decline of idolatry; Somnia Thucydidea; Knight's Carmina Homerica; Latin poem; Greek inscriptions; Professor Lee's answer; The new edition of Stephens' Greek thesaurus; Of the Latin historians before Livy; Remarks on the new edition of Stephens' Greek thesaurus; Adversaria literaria; Notice of Euripidou Bakchai; 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.