General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Peri Hellados publication office Subjects: Byzantine Empire Greece Greek language, Modern Foreign Language Study / Greek (Modern) Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages History / Ancient / Greece History / Medieval History / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter n. THE PROPER PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK. One of the principal points in the study of a language is the knowledge and the application of its correct pronunciation. In order to learn the true pronunciation, one is obliged to go to the only rational and pure source, that is, to the people who speak the language; in the case of Greek, to the Greeks. In the middle of the fifteenth century, after the fall of Constantinople, Greek fugitives came to all parts of Europe. The desire to do charity to these refugees without humiliating them too much on the one hand, and to take advantage of the opportunity offered to learn their language on the other, induced many persons to take Greek lessons from these Greeks. It became fashionable for every prince and every nobleman to have a Greek preceptor in his family. In every university a chair for Greek was established. This movement was similar to those taking place later on with reference to the Lecture delivered in Hossack Hall, Academy of Medicine, New York, June, 1896. French language in Germany, England, Switzerland, and Holland when Frenchmen were forced to emigrate after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and later still, during the French Revolution. With the introduction of the Greek language everywhere, Greek type was cast and editions of Greek authors were printed, most of them…