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Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, FBA (/ d ə s eɪ n t ˈ k r ɔɪ /; 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.
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.
Abstract. This is an in-depth engagement with the neglected Marxist classicist, G.E.M. de Ste. Croix. Although Ste. Croix's focus was Ancient Greece and, to some extent, Ancient Rome, he wrote extensively on the New Testament and early Christianity.
- Roland Boer
- 2011
G. E. M. de Ste. Croix years sociologists in particular have rather suddenly become far more willing then they used to be to adopt a Marxist analysis of problems of contemporary society. I may perhaps be allowed to refer to one particularly impressive recent example: a book called Immi grant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe, by Stephen
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.
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,
M. de Ste Croix estime que ce ne fut pas Athènes la responsable de la rupture de la Paix de Trente Ans, mais Sparte et ses alliés et avant tout Corinthe. C'est une étude scrupuleuse des deux éléments prépondérants pour les origines de la guerre, l'attitude de Corinthe à l'égard d'Athènes et le décret
