The Classical Journal: Volume 5, March–June 1812: (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)

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 5 contains the March and June issues for 1812.

Table of Contents:
Part IX. Some Account of the Researches of the German Literati; On the existence of Troy; In Aeschyli cantus choricos tentaminis novi specimen; Account of the antiquities of Henna; Supplement to a dissertation on the 49th chapter of Genesis; Conjecturae criticae in auctores Graecos; Critical remarks on Longinus; Sir W. Drummond's version of some Egyptian names; On a Phoenician inscription, found in the island of Malta; Notice of illustration of Virgil's fourth eclogue; Justi Lipsii in Senecae Hippolytum animadversiones; Biblical criticism; Remarks on Mr Bellamy; De ludis privatis ac domesticis veterum; On the howling of dogs; Critical remarks on Dr A. Clarke's annotations on the Bible; Biblical criticism; On the pronunciation of Latin words; A defence of the account of the fall of Man in Genesis; Classical criticism; Latin poem; Conjectures respecting the cherubim; Letter of Isaac Casaubon; Ben Jonson's 'noon of night', and Virgil illustrated; Notes on part of the poem of Festus Avienus; An essay on the Alexandra of Lycophron; On the composition of the Greek Sapphic ode; Latin letter to Patrick Young; Inscriptions on some bricks found at ancient Babel; Classical criticism; The Bible; Ricardi Porsoni notae in Aristophanem Brunckii; Extemporary verses; Inscriptions; Oxford prize essay; Remarks on Illustrations of Homer; Prologus ad 'Andriam', 1811; Epilogus; Oxford English prize poem; Notice of Q. Horatii Flacci opera; Preface to the Aldine Pindar; From the leaf of a Lucretius in the library of J. Bryant; On the iambic metre used by Anacreon; Remarks on the antique ring; Notice of Hebrew bible; Classical criticism; Sir W. Drummond's answer to the remarks on the word 'pharaoh'; The necessity of the eastern languages to illustrate obscure passages in the more early Greek writers; On the syntax of 'isthi, scito'; Biblical criticism; Notice of Mr Barker's new edition of Cicero de senectute et de amicitia; Critical notice of Professor Monk's Hippolytus; Solution of Professor Porson's algebraical problem; Classical criticism; Persian ode; Gulielmi Canteri de ratione emendandi Graecos auctores; Illustrations of Homer; Necrology; A solution to the algebraical problem found in the pocket book of the late Professor Porson; Latin poems; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part X. A Critique on the VIth and VIIth volumes of the Asiatic Researches; To the Rev. T. Maurice, on pagan trinities; Biblical criticism; Appendix to Mr Patrick's essay; Antiquities; On the authenticity of the Bible; Classical criticism; Inscription found at ancient Saguntum; On Sorrento; Life of Dr Bentley; 'Dialogus Stephanou tou Melanos'; Eis ten tou Khristou staurosin; Facetiae classicae; Bibliography; Concerning the origin of the Phaeaces; The phrase 'to run a muck' illustrated; Facetiae classicae; Critical notice of Bloomfield's Prometheus; Biblical criticism; On the nature and origin of the ancient Christian agapae; English prize poem; Latin ode; Classical criticism; Notice of Q. Horatii Flacci opera; Eutropius collatus cum MSto in bibliotheca publica Cantabrigiensi; Critical remarks on detached passages of Tacitus; Gulielmi Canteri de ratione emendandi Graecos auctores; On the creation; Reply to the article of Sidneyensis on the syntax of 'isthi'; Hermogenis Progymnasmata; Inscription at Fenica; Critical remarks on Longinus; On the Phoenician inscription, found in the island of Malta; Specimens of modern Greek; Latin poem; Cambridge tripos papers for 1812; Proposed emendation of Juvenal; Review of the reviewers of Mr Bellamy's Ophion; Notice of Mr Barker's new edition of Cicero de senectute et de amicitia; Critical review of Illustrations of Homer; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents.