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 22, comprising issues 43 and 44, was published in 1894.

The shortening of long syllables on Plautus; The prosody of Mico the Levite; Euripides. Two suggestions on the Iphigenia in Aulis; A suggestion on prop. II. 34, 29, 30; Bentley's notes on the Odyssey; Iphigenia and hekatombe; On the manuscripts of Aeschylus; Propert. IV.3, 35–38; Ennius Ann. 307–310; Scaliger's unpublished emendations on Nonius (cont.); The manuscripts of Propertius (cont.); The chronology of the Corinthian war; On Book XV of Ovid's Metamorphoses; On the composition of some Greek manuscripts; Visio Pauli; Bentley's notes on the Odyssey (cont.); The chronology of Xenophon's Hellenica, 387 to 362 BC; Two new MSS in the British Museum; On some passages from the poetae scenici; Note on the fourth Pythia; Some new papyri from Apollonopolis; A collation of from two to six MSS of the Revelation of St John; Annotations on Valerius Flaccus; The Escorial excerpts from Aetna.

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.