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 39 contains the March and June issues for 1829.

Part LXXVII. On Compound Words in the Ancient Languages; Observations on the power of the 'ictus metricus'; Zend and Pahlavi manuscripts; An inquiry into the truth of history; Letters to Mr Archdeacon Travis; On the situation of the Hades of Homer; Letters on the authorship of Junius's letters; Biblical criticism; Corruption of demiurgus; On the writings of Ausonius; Notice of Travels in Arabia; Notice of Corpus inscriptionum graecarum; Notice of Thesaurus tes hellenikes glosses; Notice of He kaine diatheke; Oxford Latin prize poem for 1775; Notice of variorum edition of Plato; Notices of foreign works; Literary intelligence; Correspondence; For the purposes of education; Part LXXVIII. Additional Notice of Cardwell's Nichomachean Ethics; On the difference in the chronology of the Samaritan and Greek versions and the Hebrew text of the scriptures; 'Corpus inscriptionum graecarum'; Selections from Bayly's Psyche; The ancient fragments; Pettigrew's Bibliotheca Sussexiana; Classical criticism; Nugae; The travels of Ibn Batuta; An inquiry into the truth of hsitory; On the mysteries of Eleusis; On the epic poetry of the Romans; Classical criticism; Adversaria literaria; Foreign works; Literary intelligence; Correspondence; For the purposes of education.

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.