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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.
G. E. M. de Ste. Croix. 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.
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 ...
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,
Feb 27, 2009 · The Origin of the Peloponnesian War - G. E. M. De Ste Croix: The Origins of the Peloponnesian War. Pp. xii+444. London: Duckworth, 1972. Cloth, £6·75. - Volume 25 Issue 2
Feb 16, 2009 · Our de Ste. Croix was born in Macao to an employee ‘in the Chinese Customs’ and a mother who was the ‘daughter of missionaries’. We also learn that he broke ‘with official Communism in 1939’ (loc. cit.), and that he is ‘anything but senile’ (xiii).
