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 24, comprising issues 47 and 48, was published in 1896.

Various notes on Thucydides VI, VII; Homer's similes; The slaying of the suitors; On a Virgilian idiom; Plato Philebus 66 B; Plato Timaeus 51 B; The Attic civil and sacred years; The Trebbia and Lake Trasimene; The Carthaginian councils; Lucretiana; On the new Hecale fragments and other Callimachea; A contribution to the history of the Greek anthology; The new Sotadei discovered by Sayce and Mahaffy; Horace, Odes IV, 8, 15–20; Antigone ll. 891–927; New remarks on the Ibis of Ovid; The 'great lacuna' in the eighth book of Silius Italicus; Notes on Nonius; Notes on Empedocles; Notes on Solon; Notes on Clement of Alexandria; Emendationes Homericae; On the sources of the texts of S. Athanasius; On the composition of some Greek manuscripts.

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.