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In separate favoured regions, various kinds of men set out to domesticate and master the gifts and forces around them: to "live well," in the old Greek phrase, under the given conditions of their home, or failing this, to seek and make a new one: in either event, to comply as well as to command; to conquer Nature by observance of her laws.
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John Myres
Born:
July 3, 1869
Died:
March 6, 1954
(aged 84)
Bio:
Sir John Linton Myres was a British archaeologist who conducted excavations in Cyprus in 1904.
Known for:
Homer and his critics
The dawn of history (1911)
Mediterranean Culture (1943)
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