Sir John Linton Myres

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Sir John Linton Myres

1869–1954

An adventurous British archaeologist and historian, he helped shape the study of the ancient Mediterranean through fieldwork, teaching, and wide-ranging scholarship. His work on Cyprus and the early Greek world made him a respected figure in classical studies.

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Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford

Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford

by Sir Arthur Evans, W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler, F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, Sir John Linton Myres

About the author

Born in Preston in 1869, Sir John Linton Myres built a long career as an archaeologist, historian, and teacher. He studied at Oxford and became closely associated with the British School at Athens, where his early travels and research deepened a lifelong interest in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.

Myres is especially remembered for his archaeological work in Cyprus and for bringing together evidence from history, geography, and anthropology in his writing. He later held the Gladstone Professorship of Greek at the University of Liverpool and then became the first Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at Oxford, a post he held for many years.

Alongside his academic work, he also contributed to British intelligence and geographical studies during the First World War. He died in Oxford in 1954, leaving behind a reputation for energetic scholarship and an unusually broad view of the ancient world.