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 25 contains the March and June issues for 1822.

Part XLIX. Notice of Dodwell's Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece; Nugae; Puerilia; Cambridge triposes for 1822; On the fables of Aesop and Babrias; Arithmetic of the Holy Scriptures; The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology; On the origin, progress, prevalence, and decline of idolatry; Memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera; Notice of Bothe's edition of Senecae Tragoediae; Latin poem; Criticisms on some passages of Hakluyt's Early Voyages; Notice of The Life of William Sancroft; On the life and writings of Casimir; Epigrammata, epitaphia, variorum; Languages in which the translation and distribution of the scriptures have been promoted by the British and Foreign Bible Society; Concise view of the translations of the Holy Scriptures; Carmen seculare; 'Graphike Hetairia' of Corfu; Observations on Cousin's and Creuzer's Commentaries of Proclus; Niehbur's discoveries in the Vatican; The appendixes to Burckhardt's Travels in Nubia; Latin epistle; Franciscus Portus and his Aeschylus; D. French's Munusculum Juventuti; Prologue and epilogue to the Andria of Terence; On the true age of Christ at the crucifixion; Burges' Aeschyli Tragoediae; Bibliography; Greek inscriptions; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part L. Classical Biography; Dunbar's defence of his Analecta; Some orations ascribed to Cicero; Corrections in the common translation of the New Testament; Notice of Boissonade's Excerpta; The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology; Epistola macaronica; On the origin, progress, prevalence, and decline of idolatry; Proposal for a Latin colony; Memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera; Observations on Cousin's and Creuzer's Commentaries of Proclus; Dublin prize essay; Eubulus on education at Cambridge; Barker's reply to Boiotos; Marklandi notae in Euripidem; Ossan's edition of Philemon; 'The lyrics of Horace'; Diogenes Laertius; Nugae; 'Illustrations of Hogarth'; Nugae criticae; Dalzel's Collectanea graeca majora; On the fables of Aesop and Babrias; Oriental literature; Adversaria literaria; Oxford English prize poem for 1822; Postscript to the memoir on the antiquity of the zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera; 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.