Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles
Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles was a Greek Orthodox monk, professor of classics and Modern Greek at Harvard University, and lexicographer. He was born in Tsangarada, Thessaly, Ottoman Empire, and he died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is considered to be a pioneer of Modern Greek studies.Selected works
- A Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners. Hartford, 1835;.
- A Romaic Grammar. Hartford, 1842; ; revised edition 1860.
- A Catalogue of Greek Verbs for the Use of Colleges. Hartford, 1844;.
- Romaic or Modern Greek Grammar. Boston, 1857,.
- History of the Greek alphabet with remarks on Greek orthography and pronunciation. George Nichols, Cambridge, 1848,.
- History of the Greek Alphabet and Pronunciation. Cambridge, 1848; Second edition, revised. John Bartlett, Cambridge, 1854,.
- A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek. Cambridge, 1860,.
- Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100. Boston, 1870; Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1887,. Reprinted: Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1914; New York, 1957 in two volumes.
