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G. E. M. de Ste. Croix. Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, FBA (/ dəseɪntˈkrɔɪ /; 8 February 1910 – 5 February 2000), known informally as Croicks, [1] was a British historian who specialised in examining Ancient Greece from a Marxist perspective. He was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford, from 1953 to 1977 ...
Dec 28, 2017 · G. E. M. de Ste. Croix was a Marxist, atheist, feminist historian of the ancient Greek and Roman world who came to ancient history in middle age and produced important studies of the role of class and the oppression of the poor throughout ancient Greek and later history.
10 G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Pierre-Philippe Rey have operated to a high degree within a Marxist tradition, which they have developed in various ways. Several French ancient historians, too, have made much use of Marxist concepts, especially the fundamental one of classes and class conflict, which will be the main theme of the latter part of this ...
1 These are particular points in a much wider reach of work that included the class struggle in the ‘Greek World’, which for Ste. Croix stretched from the 7th century BCE to the 6th century CE, the nature of Athenian democracy, of which Ste. Croix was a champion, the causes of the Peloponnesian War, and the matters of martyrdom, persecution and early church councils (Ste. Croix Citation ...
- Roland Boer
- 2011
The Marxist ancient historian Geoffrey de Ste. Croix (1910-2000) was born in Macau, China. His father was an official in the Chinese Customs Service and his mother was a devout Protestant from a missionary family. After attending Clifton College, Bristol, he gained a legal training and became a sollicitor in 1932. [1]
By G.E.M. DE STE. CROIX History as we know it (I mean historiography, the writing of history) may in a very real sense be said to have been invented by the Greeks, and it was a creation of the fifth century B.C. The earliest historian whose works we possess-indeed, the earliest of all historians in the proper sense-is Herodotus of Halicarnassus,
1 ‘Class in Marx’s conception of history, ancient and modern’(Isaac Deutscher Memorial Lecture, 28 Nov. 1983), in New Left Review, 146 (July–Aug. 1984), 94–111, at 96. 2 This and other unattributed quotations in this Memoir derive from letters or from ‘Bio-graphical Particulars’ drafted by Ste. Croix in 1985.
