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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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Feb 5, 2000 · He was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford from 1953 to 1977, where he taught scholars including Robin Lane Fox, Robert Parker and Nicholas Richardson. G.E.M. de Ste Croix was educated at Clifton College. There, he became proficient in Latin and Greek, and a talented tennis player. He won the under-16 South of England ...
Aug 11, 2005 · Books. Athenian Democratic Origins: and Other Essays. G. E. M. de Ste. Croix. OUP Oxford, Aug 11, 2005 - History - 476 pages. In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged.
