The Journal of Philology

Founded in 1868 by the Cambridge scholars John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825–1910), William George Clark (1821–78), and William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), this biannual journal was a successor to The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Unlike its short-lived precursor, it survived for more than half a century, until 1920, spanning the period in which specialised academic journals developed from more general literary reviews. Predominantly classical in subject matter, with contributions from such scholars as J. P. Postgate, Robinson Ellis and A. E. Housman, the journal also contains articles on historical and literary themes across the 35 volumes, illuminating the growth and scope of philology as a discipline during this period. Volume 5, comprising issues 9 and 10, was published in 1874.

Dr Kennedy on Sophocles; On the word 'bougaios'; On 'vis' (2nd pers. of 'volo'), 'invitus' and 'invitare'; On an uncollated MS of Demosthenes, of the 14th cent.; On the derivation and the meaning of 'epiousios'; On Cicero, Epp. ad Fam. 4. 5, 3; On some passages of the Pentateuch, Judges, and 2 Kings; The Sophists, II; On the words 'neap' and 'ebb'; On 'skopoumai' as a passive as well as middle verb; Notes on Sophocles (cont.); On the etymology of 'Nedumos'; Philostratus, Vit. Soph. I, 22; Dr Hayman's Odyssey of Homer; Aristotelia; Two passages in Plato's Republic; The MSS of Sophocles; Notes on the Aeneid; Aulus Persius Flaccus; Cicero de natura deorum; On glossology (cont.); On the word 'krounockytroleraios' in The Equites of Aristophanes, v. 89; The classification of conditional sentences in Greek syntax; On the interpretation of Plato, Timaeus, p. 40 c; Platonica; On the place of a fragment of Aeschylus; On the existence of written histories in the time of Thucydides; The 'daimonion semeion' of Socrates; Proposed emendation of the text of Origen against Celsus; On the newly edited poems of Dracontius; On two passages of Statius' Silvae; On Sulpiciae Satira; On the sixth letter of Isocrates; On the Homeric words 'atarteros, epitarrothos, prothelymnos'; On a passage in Plato's Republic; On the etymology of certain words in English terminating in '-sk' and -sh'; Love Amor, Love Nought; Catullus' 54th poem; Veteri vetus hospes amico.

Founded in 1868 by Cambridge scholars John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825-1910), William George Clark (1821-78), and William Aldis Wright (1831-1914), this biannual journal survived until 1920, spanning the period in which modern academic journals developed. These 35 volumes illuminate the growth and scope of classical philology.