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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 · 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.
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
Sep 28, 2006 · The volume's central themes are: martyrdom, the evidence for which Ste. Croix scrutinizes closely in order to reveal the extent to which Christians, through the process of volunteering, were responsible for bouts of persecution; persecution, which extends from the Christian experience as recipients to their role as far more effective agents of ...
- Geoffrey de Ste. Croix
Oct 1, 2007 · The first essay, ‘Aspects of the “Great” Persecution’, is the earliest and the most seminal. For all that has been said on the other side, Ste. Croix is widely held to have proved that the fourth of Diocletian's edicts, which required sacrifice from all Christians, was never promulgated in the West.
- M. J. Edwards
- 2007
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.) Pp. xx + 380; 1 photograph.
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,
