[3][2] He was interested in Cypriot history and ethnography and he travelled across the island to collect material for his research.
[6] Together with Simos Menardos he revived the series of Hellenike Bibliotheke of Adamantios Korais, under the auspices of the Academy of Athens.
[3] It is believed that the reason for his suicide was the backlash of his publication of Plato's Symposium and Sykoutris treatment of homosexuality as a component of Classical Greek culture.
[6] Sykoutris is considered among the founders of the field of Cyprological studies, together with Athanasios Sakellarios and Konstantinos Sathas.
[9] His gave his archive from his work in Cyprus to his friend Louis Loizou from Famagusta, and it was lost during the 1974 war.