The Journal of Philology [Paperback]

Published between 1868 and 1920, this 35-volume set illuminates the development of specialised academic journals as well as classical philology.Founded in 1868 by Cambridge scholars John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (18251910), William George Clark (182178), and William Aldis Wright (18311914), 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.Founded in 1868 by Cambridge scholars John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (18251910), William George Clark (182178), and William Aldis Wright (18311914), 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.Founded in 1868 by the Cambridge scholars John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (18251910), William George Clark (182178), and William Aldis Wright (18311914), 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 3, comprising issues 5 and 6, was published in 1871.On an Accadian seal; On the end of the epistle to the Romans; On the Enneakrunos at Athens; On the lengthening of short final syllables in Vergil; On Aeneas' voyage round Sicily; On the chronology of St John V and VI; Note on the 'Arzareth' of 4 Esdr. XIII, 45; On Lucretius, Book VI; A theory of Job XIX, 2527; On the history of the Ravennl35