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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 ...
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,
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
Sep 28, 2006 · Abstract. The volume presents in seven chapters papers on early Christian topics by Geoffrey de Ste. Croix. Three of the chapters include papers which have previously been published and are widely accepted as classic studies, while the other four now appear in print for the first time – though they have already proved influential as a result of presentation at seminars and circulation in ...
- Geoffrey 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. After attending Clifton College, Bristol, he gained a legal training and became a sollicitor in 1932. [1]
Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix 1910–2000. GEOFFREY DE STE. CROIX, the great radical historian of the classical world, received what he was to call ‘a thoroughly right-wing upbringing’.1 His paternal forebears were Huguenots who fled from the France of Louis XIV to Jersey, but his more immediate connections on both sides were with ...
