The Classical Journal: Volume 7, March–June 1813: (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 7 contains the March and June issues for 1813.

Table of Contents:
Part XIII. Inquiry into the Causes of the Diversity of Human Characters; Researches of the German literati; Latin poem; Observations on the 'China of the Classics'; Critical notice of Philemonis lexicon; Epigram on Cicero; Latin inscription; Account of Herculaneum; Biblical criticism; Prologus in Eunuchum; Epilogus; On the ancient language of Egypt; Observations sur le costume théatral; Latin ode; Biblical criticism; Explanantion of a passage in Virgil; Classical criticism; A sermon preached by John Pearson; Aristophanis comoediae; Reply to an article on Bentley's Callimachus; On the existence of Troy; Answer to the defence of Sir W. Drummond; On the primary meaning of 'nubere'; Biblical criticism; Miscellaneous observations; Specimens of Persian poetry; On reading the Greek Testament in public schools; Biblical criticism; Latin inscription; Classical criticism; On the language of action; Account of an extraordinary sect called Yezidis; On the Tyrian inscription found in the island of Malta; St Quentin's English and French grammars; Observations on Falconer's Strabo; Singular use of the word 'angelos'; A letter of Rzevuski; On the composition of the Greek Sapphic ode; In tragicorum graecorum carmina monostrophica commentarius; Prometheus desmotes of Aeschylus; On the origin of the druids; Mr Barker's reply; On the Phoenician inscription found in the island of Malta; Observations on Dr Holmes' preface; Biblical synonyma; The Hippolytus Stephanephorus; The founders of the Druses religion; Grammatica graeca ab Augusto Matthiae; The name of Zoroaster; Inscriptions found at ancient Saguntum; Prospectuses of works; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part XIV. Notice of Iconographie Ancienne; Biblical criticism; Miscellaneous observations; Epigram; Interpretatio notarum Romanarum; Palaeographie; On the Tyrian inscription; Notice of Aeschyli Tragoediae quae supersunt; Bibliography; Notice of Teucher's edition of Antoninus Liberalis; Biblical criticism; Classical criticism; Critical notice of Elmsley's Heraclidae; Notice of Moore's Hindu Pantheon; Egyptian antiquities; Notice of Allen's Elements of English Grammar; Asonas of Theophylact; Carmina Homerica; Notice of Nonni Dionysiacorum libri sex; Biblical criticism; Christ's birth not mis-timed; To the editors of Stephens's Gr. Thesaurus; Manuscripts; Account of Cambridge honors; In tragicorum graecorum carmina monostrophica commentarius; Observations on the Romaic or modern Greek language; Poems by the King of Persia; Anecdotes relating to Theophilus; Error in Milton's Latinity noticed; Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes; Xenophon's Oeconomicus; Aristophanis opera; Latin poem; Notice of Ciceronis de natura deorum; Hermogenis progymnasmata; Latin inscriptions; Collation of two MSS of Sophocles; Biblical criticism; Classical criticism; Essay on blank verse; Two letters from T. Falconer; Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes; Prometheus vinctus emendatus; Metrical arrangements restored to Horace; Observations on Suidas; Notes on Aeschylus; Classical criticism; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents.