A Dissertation Against Pronouncing The Greek Language According To Accents

A Dissertation Against Pronouncing The Greek Language According to Modern Practice is an eighteenth-century philological essay by Henry Gally (1696-1769), the English Anglican clergyman and writer best known for his English translation of Theophrastus’s Characters and for his sermons preached at the Chapel Royal. The dissertation enters the long European argument over Greek pronunciation that runs from Erasmus and Reuchlin through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and argues against the prevailing English practice that read ancient Greek with modern Greek vowel values. Gally argues for a reconstructed pronunciation closer to the Erasmian system that would later become standard in nineteenth-century English classical teaching. The essay is a useful primary source for the history of classical scholarship in Georgian England. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.