Leslie Kurke

Leslie V. Kurke (born 1959) is a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley.[1][2]

She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1981,[3] and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1988.

Awards

• 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• The traffic in praise: Pindar and the poetics of social economy, Cornell University Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-8014-2350-5
• Cultural poetics in archaic Greece: cult, performance, politics, Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-19-512415-6
• Coins, bodies, games, and gold: the politics of meaning in archaic Greece, Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-691-00736-6
• The cultures within ancient Greek culture: contact, conflict, collaboration, Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-81566-6
• Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose, Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-69-114458-0

References

1. http://classics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=4
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-05-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-19. Retrieved 2010-05-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)