CAPPS, EDWARD (1866— ) , American classical schol ar, was born in Jacksonville (Ill.), on Dec. 21, 1866. He gradu ated at Illinois college in 1887, and received the degree of Ph.D. at Yale university in 1891. In 1890 he was appointed tutor at Yale. He was professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Chicago from 1892 to 1907. In 1903 he was special lecturer at Harvard, and during the next two years studied at Athens, and Halle, Germany. During 1906-7 he was managing editor of Classical Philology, and in 1907 was called to Princeton university as professor of classics. In 1914 he was president of the American Philological Association, and in 1917 was Turnbull lecturer on poetry at Johns Hopkins University. In 1918 he was appointed head of the American Red Cross Commission to Greece, and became also chairman of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In 1920 he was appointed minister to Greece, resigning in March 1921 and returning to Princeton. He is a leading authority on the Greek theatre. He was editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago decennial publications, 29 vols., and became the American editor of the Loeb Classical Library.
His works include: The Greek Stage according to the Extant Dramas (1891) ; From Homer to Theocritus (Igoe) ; The Introduction of Comedy into the City Dionysia (i9o3) ; and Four Plays of Menan der (1910).