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Sir John Linton Myres
1869–1954
An energetic scholar of the ancient world, he helped shape modern archaeology and ancient history in Britain while keeping a strong interest in geography and anthropology. His work on Cyprus and the wider Greek world made him an important bridge between fieldwork and big-picture historical thinking.
1 Audiobook
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 was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He became a British archaeologist and academic whose career ranged across archaeology, ancient history, geography, and anthropology.
Myres is especially remembered for his excavations and research in Cyprus and for his long connection with Oxford. After fellowships at Magdalen College and Christ Church, and a short period as Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool, he returned to Oxford, where he served as the first Wykeham Professor of Ancient History from 1910 to 1939.
He was also active in learned societies and was recognized with honors including election to the British Academy. Across his writing and teaching, he was known for bringing together evidence from many fields to build a richer picture of the ancient Mediterranean, and he remained an influential figure in British classical scholarship until his death in 1954.