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 29, comprising issues 57 and 58, was published in 1904.

Notes on Diogenes Laertius; The orthography of Martial's epigrams; Fulgentiana; Aristotle's conception of chemical combination; The formation of the Julian calendar, with reference to the astronomical year; The date of the crucifixion; E. B. Cowell; The Hamburg Stadtbibliothek Codex No. 1; On some passages in Aristotle's Metaphysics Lamda; Notes on Quintilian Book V; Notes on the MSS of Prudentius; On Fronto; Enoch and Clement; Notes on the pronunciation of Greek as deduced from Graeco-Indian bilingual coins; Emendationes Homericae (Od. XX-XXIV); Metrical stopgaps in Statius' Thebaid; The Hebrew verb 'to create'; Some remarks on the later Platonism.