John Myres

Sir John Linton Myres OBE, FBA ( born July 3, 1869 in Preston, † March 6, 1954 in Oxford ) was a British historian and archaeologist Classic.

The son of a pastor received his education at Winchester College and studied in 1888 at New College, Oxford University. Then he was at Oxford from 1892 to 1895 fellow at Magdalen College, then to 1907 Tutor at Christ Church College. In 1903 he was lecturer of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford.

1907 Myres Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool, 1910 Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University. In 1913/1914 he was the first holder of the Sather Visiting Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley. 1926/1927 Myres was the second time Sather Professor. His lecture Who were the Greeks? was reprinted in 1930 in the series Sather Lectures. From 1928 to 1931, Myres President of Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1919 he was admitted to the Order of the British Empire in 1943 knighted.

Myres dealt equally with the Greek and Roman history, particularly with the political history and the role of historiography. He also published essays and archaeological monographs. Several times he stopped his explorations and excavations in Greece, Asia Minor and Cyprus.

His son was John Nowell Linton Myres, the archaeologist ( 1902-1989 ).