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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,
Oct 1, 2007 · Against Sherwin-White, who holds that contumacia was the ground of prosecution, Ste. Croix urges (a) that the term does not occur in Pliny's letter to Trajan, on which Sherwin-White relies; (b) that the disobedience which was punished by Pliny arose in the course of the trial, and hence cannot have been the occasion of it; (c) that the test of obedience was administered only to those who had ...
- M. J. Edwards
- 2007
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
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 ...
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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 ...
