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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.
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,
reviewer that de Ste. Croix knows more about his own special field than he does himself. G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests (London, Duckworth, 1981). xi, 732 pp. 2 New York Review ofBooks, 2 Dec. 1982, pp. 47-5I. 3 De Ste. Croix, Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek ...
REVIEW ARTICLES. AA MARXIST VIEW OF ROMAN HISTORY. By P. A. BRUNT. G. E. M. DE STE. CROIX, THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD FROM. ARCHAIC AGE TO THE ARAB CONQUESTS. London: Duckworth, I98T. Pp. xi + 732. Despite its title, this book offers more to historians of Rome than to those of classical Greece.
Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix 1910–2000. GEOFFREY DE STE. CROIX, the great radical historian of the classical world, received what he was to call ‘a thoroughly right-wing upbringing’.1 His paternal forebears were Huguenots who fled from the France of Louis XIV to Jersey, but his more immediate connections on both sides were with ...
Feb 16, 2009 · 1 The ‘Editors' Preface’ (xiii–xviii) both follows this line and proves informative. It does not, incidentally, explain if de Clermont, G. E. J., de Sainte-Croix, Baron, of Des anciens gouvernements fédératifs etc. (Paris, VIII)Google Scholar, was an ancestor who did not flee under Louis XIV unlike those mentioned who fled to Jersey (xiv) (one wonders what would have become of our ...
