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 16, comprising issues 31 and 32, was published in 1888.

Emendationes Propertianae; Miscellanea critica; Life and poems of Juvenal; Notes in Latin lexicography; The title of the second book of Nonius; On the Hebrew root and word; On the fragments of the Latin hexameter poem contained in the Herculanean papyri; Kin and custom; Pausan. VIII. 16, 5; Seneca ep. 19, 3; Ovid Met. IV, 139–141; A lost edition of Sophocles' Philoctetes; Lucretiana; The Pugio fidei; A Roman MS of the Culex; Aristarchos' reading and interpretation of Iliad N, 358–9; Servius on Aeneid IX, 289; Noniana quaedam; Notes of Porpertius; Adversaria; Lexicographical notes; The 'Numasios' inscription; Aeschylea; On the date of Calpurnius Siculus; Notes on Juvenal; Notes on Martial, Book III; The Agamemnon of Aeschylus; Note on emendation of Propertius; On the Aetna of Lucilius; Conjectures on the Aetna, Culex and Ciris; Cic. Acad. Prior. XXV, 79, 80.

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.