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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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
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
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.
