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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 · 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.
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
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,
G. E. M. DE STE. CROIX, THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD FROM THE 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. For Dr de Ste. Croix (henceforth SC), the ancient Greek world endured until the Arab conquests.
Feb 16, 2009 · Crux: Essays in Greek History Presented to G.E.M. de Ste. Croix on his 75th Birthday. (First issued in History of Political Thought 6, ½ (1985), published by Imprint Academic, Exeter.)
Feb 16, 2009 · The Class Struggle in the Ancient World - G. E. M. de Ste. Croix: The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. Pp. xii + 732. London: Duckworth, 1981. £38.
