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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.
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 .
My engagement with the formidable but neglected Marxist classicist, Geoffrey Ernest Maurice (G.E.M.) de Ste. Croix, concerns four specific features of his much larger sphere of work.
- 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 years sociologists in particular have rather suddenly become far more willing then they used to be to adopt a Marxist analysis of problems of contemporary society. I may perhaps be allowed to refer to one particularly impressive recent example: a book called Immi grant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe, by Stephen
De Ste. Croix claims to have made more sense of Marx's scattered and sometimes sketchy observations on ancient society and the class struggle than most other Marxist historians, a
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
