The Classical Journal: Volume 36, September–December 1827: (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 36 contains the September and December issues for 1827.

Table of Contents:
Part LXXI. Bertius's Ptolemy; An inquiry into the credit due to Dionysius of Halicarnassus; On grammar; Is Lycophron author of the Cassandra?; A familiar exposition of the doctrine representing the Trinity; Analysis of the first Mosaic record; Biblical criticism; Notice of Researches on the Tenets and Doctrines of the Jeynes and Boodhists; Anecdotes of eastern bibliography; On the Chremonidian war; Homer and Shakespeare; Biblical criticisms; Bibliography; Cambridge prize poems for 1827; Bibliotheca Parriana; The decalogue; Adversaria literaria; Sale of Drury's library; Literary intelligence; Correspondence; For the purposes of education; Part LXXII. Latin Poem; Sale of Drury's library; Some incidents in the life of Cyrillus Lucaris, patriarch of Constantinople; Magic of the ancient Greek and Romans; The ancient Roman distinction of patrician and plebeian; An inquiry into the credit due to Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Letters to Mr Archdeacon Travis; Collatio codicis manuscripti Homeri Odysseae; Curae posteriores ad Dawesii miscellanea; A brother of the poet Alcaeus; Illuminated manuscripts; Classical and oriental library and museum; Notice of Greek gradus; Literary intelligence; Correspondence; For the purposes of education.