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 24 contains the September and December issues for 1821.

Part XLVII. On the Origin, Progress, Prevalence, and Decline of Idolatry; Miscellanea classica; Puerilia; Dissertation on the countries to which Solomon and Hiram sent their fleets; Answer to Professor Lee's observation; Greek ritual; Classical criticism; Latin poem; The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology; Notae et curae sequentes in Arati Diosemea; On the mythology of the Greeks; Oriental customs; An introduction to Hebrew criticism; Observations on Mr Bellamy's reply; Oxford English essay prize for 1821; Remarks on the different methods of ploughing adopted by the Romans; Critica sacra; Conjecturae in Horat. Od. iii. et Epist. i.; Professor Gaisford's publications; Euripidis Phoenissae emendatae; De vita Johannis Jacobi Reiskii; Memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera; Adversaria literaria; Notice of a vindication of 1 John v, 7; Oxford English Prize Poem for 1821; Oriental literature; Cambridge Greek prize poem for 1821; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part XLVIII. Oxford English essay prize for 1809; Classical criticism; The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology; On the origin, progress, prevalence, and decline of idolatry; African fragments; Memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera; Critique on Mr Bellamy's new translation of the Bible; Observationes criticae of Beck; Amoenitates philosophicae; Cambridge prize poems for 1821; Notice of Knight's Carmina Homerica; Notice of Cousin's edition of the first two books of Proclus; Remarks on Livy, iii, 5; Notice of The life of William Sancroft; Biblical criticism; Turkish memoirs of Ewlia Efendi; Florilegium hibernicum; Remarks on Claudian, 1, 18, 22; Fragmenta dithyrambica; Miscellanea classica; Nugae; Puerilia; Oriental literature; The last no. of Museum criticum; American prizes; On the Elean inscription; On the plagiarisms of Dr Blomfield; On two passages in Virgil's Georgics; 'An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures'; Literary intelligence; Dr Coplestone's Enquiry; 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.