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Ste. Croix is best known for his books The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1972) and The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests (1981). He was also a noted contributor on the issue of Christian persecution between the reigns of the Roman Emperors Trajan and Diocletian .
Dec 28, 2017 · Abstract. 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 ...
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
Oct 15, 2017 · PDF | On Oct 15, 2017, Laurinda S. Dixon published Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897 | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Péladan intended the salons de la Rose+Croix to be vehicles for the staging of a final brilliant demonstration before the doomed Latin race immolated itself in an orgy of materialism and banality—a scenario shared by Wagner’s music drama Twilight of the Gods.
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,
