

The Greeks
Author: Diane Harris Cline
Narrator: Pam Ward
Unabridged: 6 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/05/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Greece History
Author: Diane Harris Cline
Narrator: Pam Ward
Unabridged: 6 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/05/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Greece History
Diane Harris Cline is an associate professor of history and classics at George Washington University, where she is an affiliated faculty member of the Digital Humanities Institute. She is a popular lecturer on the history of Greece with expertise on the city of Athens, Greek sanctuaries, and Greek art, archaeology, inscriptions, and biography. Cline holds a BA in classics from Stanford, a PhD in classical archaeology from Princeton, and was a fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, where she was also a Fulbright Scholar. Her current research focuses on social networks and innovation in classical Athens.
Pam Ward, an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress’ Talking Books program. The fact that she can work with Blackstone Audio from the beauty of the mountains of Southern Oregon is an unexpected bonus.
“Pam Ward gives this brief, popularly written history of ancient Greece an amiable, energetic, and attentive narration…Her light tone and amused congeniality don’t negate the intelligent care she brings to interpreting the text. She shapes intonation and emphasis to provide great clarity to the listener. She’s especially adept at giving the text’s frequent jokiness a properly droll tone while maintaining a fundamental seriousness. When given the occasional chance to act (as in quotations), she emotes admirably. Ward accurately renders and even betters the text of this Ancient Greek History 101, conveying its breeziness while keeping it anchored.” AudioFile