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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.
2 Predictably, Ste. Croix's work has been celebrated by Marxist historians. Perry Anderson calls it ‘one of the most strenuously theoretical works of history ever to have been produced in this country’ (Anderson Citation 1992: 2) and Paul Blackledge suggests it should ‘be numbered among the greatest works of 20th-century Marxist historiography’ (Blackledge Citation 2006: 104).
- Roland Boer
- 2011
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
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 ...
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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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,
