APOSTOLIOS, MICHELE. - Greek humanist, died about 1480 at the age of sixty. Taken prisoner by the Turks during the conquest of Constantinople, he was later freed and came to Italy. After some time he went to settle in Crete, where he devoted himself to teaching and to the transcription of codices. Cardinal Bessarione always counted him as a friend and assisted him generously; for this reason A. composed his funeral eulogy (PG 161, 127-40).
Among the works of A., all of which demonstrate the author’s erudition, the following should be noted: a collection of proverbs (ed. E. A. Leutsch, in Corpus paroemiographorum graecorum, II, Gottinga 1851, pp. 233-744), a collection of letters (ed. H. Noiret, Lettres inédites de M. A., Parigi 1889; E. Darko in Byzant. Zeitsch., 26 [1926], p. 428), and other miscellaneous writings (ed. H. Noiret, ibid.; G. Hyperides, Smirne 1876; L. Mohler, Aux Bessarions Gelehrtenkreis, Paderborn 1942, pp. 159-69).