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.
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This compelling reference presents the history of ancient Greece—the culture that brought us democracy, the Olympics, Socrates, and Alexander the Great—through gripping stories: the rise and fall of the phenomenal empire, the powerful legacy left by a... SEE MORE