The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests - Softcover

Ste. Croix, Geoffrey E. Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801495970 ISBN 13: 9780801495977

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1989

Synopsis

This text is a challenging work on ancient history and should be of interest to historians of the Greco-Roman world. It combines sociological acumen with solid historical craftsmanship, to provide an insightful account of the major institutions, social groups and historical developments of some 1400 years of Graeco-Roman civilization.

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Review:

"Combining sociological acumen with solid historical craftsmanship, Ste. Croix provides a new and insightful account of the major institutions, social groups, and historical developments of some 1,400 years of Greco-Roman civilization, ... and the result... is not only one of the finest studies on classical society to date but also a major contribution to historical sociology."

--American Journal of Sociology

"This book is one of the most exciting, provocative, and challenging works on ancient history to have appeared in recent times and is of immense importance to all historians of the Graeco-Roman world.... Because of the great wealth of insights brought to bear on a multiplicity of topics, no one in the future will be able to neglect the book and its major theme, the exploitation by a propertied elite of the bulk of the ancient population."

--American Journal of Philology

About the Author:

G. E. M. de Ste. Croix is a Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0801495970
• ISBN 13: 9780801495977
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 732