The Classical Journal is published by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South

Classical Association of the Middle West and South

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South , is a professional organization for classicists and non-classicists at all levels of instruction which promotes the Classics through the broad scope of its annual meeting, through the publication of both original research and pedagogical...

 (CAMWS), the largest and oldest regional classics

Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

 association in the United States and Canada.

The Classical Journal Print Edition

CAMWS members receive the journal as a benefit of membership; non-member and library subscriptions are also available. CJ appears four times a year (October–November, December–January, February–March, April–May); each issue consists of about 96 pages.http://www.classicaljournal.org The journal currently has about 2300 subscribers, including approximately 700 libraries and research institutions.

The Classical Journal Archives

CJ has entered into a relationship with the digital journal archive JSTOR

JSTOR

JSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

to store all back issues, with a moving wall of 3–4 years.

Journal History

As described by JSTOR:

The Classical Journal publishes scholarly articles on Greek and Latin language and literature and on all other aspects of classical studies, together with book reviews. Its Forum section features articles devoted to pedagogy. The journal has been published continuously since 1905; over the years the number of issues per volume has varied, but it is now fixed at four.

The editor in chief of the journal is elected by the membership of the organization for a five-year term (renewable once). As of July 2010, the current editor in chief is Laurel Fulkerson.
Previous editors have been:
Arthur Fairbanks (University of Chicago) 1905-7;
Gordon J. Laing (University of Chicago) 1905-8;
A. G. Laird (University of Wisconsin) 1907-9;
Frank J. Miller (University of Chicago) 1908-28;
Arthur T. Walker (University of Kansas) 1909-32;
Roy C. Flickinger (University of Iowa) 1928-33;
J. O. Lofberg (Oberlin College) (died November 10, 1932);
Walter Miller (University of Missouri) 1933-35;
Eugene Tavenner (Washington University) 1935-45;
Norman J. DeWitt (Washington University) 1945-50;
Clyde Murley (Northwestern University) 1950-55;
Phillip DeLacy (Washington University) 1955-56;
Norman T. Pratt, Jr. (Indiana University) 1956-61;
W. Robert Jones (Ohio State University) 1961-68;
Roy Arthur Swanson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 1968-73;
Harold D. Evjen (University of Colorado) 1973-77;
Ernst A. Fredricksmeyer (University of Colorado) Coeditor 1973-76;
Hunter R. Rawlings, III (University of Colorado) 1977-83;
W. W. de Grummond (Florida State University) 1983-;
John Miller (University of Virginia);
Peter Knox (University of Colorado);
S. Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota) 2005-10.

The current Book Review editor is Charles McNelis (Georgetown University). The current Forum editor is Emily B. West (College of Saint Catherine).

Sample of Contents

CJ 104.4 contains:

ARTICLES

1. Suppliant Danaids and Argive Nymphs in Aeschylus
2. Lyric, History and Imagination: Horace as Historiographer (C. 2.1)
3. Magna Perseis: A Note on Valerius Flaccus, Arg. 7.238

FORUM

1. Utilizing Quantitative Elements in Courses on the Ancient World: An Overview
2. The Measure of Beauty and the Beauty of Measure
3. Quantitative Reasoning and Scientific Analysis in the Ancient Art Classroom
4. Lessons for Classics from the History of Mathematics

BOOK REVIEWS

1. Gabriel Herman, Morality and Behaviour in Democratic Athens: A Social History
2. Caroline Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome
3. Miranda Marvin, The Language of the Muses: The Dialogue Between Greek and Roman Sculpture

The Classical Journal Listserv and Website

In May 2007, The Classical Journal began delivering online-exclusive book reviews, professional announcements, and supplemental material through the University of Minnesota's listserv. Subscription to the listserv is free and is offered automatically to CAMWS members; an archive can be found here, while book reviews and the Online Forum are indexed at the official website, classicaljournal.org.

On-Line Educational Resources

A large collection of links to on-line educational resources related to the ancient world is posted at http://classicaljournal.org/links-online.php

Graduate Study in the Classics

The website hosts annual survey responses from graduate-level Classical Studies departments across the United States and Canada. The survey responses along with a selection of Frequently Asked Questions and advice on presenting at professional conferences are designed to concentrate information useful to prospective and current graduate students.http://classicaljournal.org/study_classics%20surveys.php

Ancestry of Doctoral Degrees Wiki

The website also houses DIADOCHOI, a Wiki-style searchable website dedicated to the ancestry of doctoral degrees in Classical Studies and closely related fields.http://classicaljournal.org/diadochoi.php

External links

• Classical Journal Official site. The peer-reviewed journal of CAMWS.
• Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) Official site.