Leslie Kurke Explained

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. Her doctoral thesis was Pindar's Oikonomia: The House as Organizing Metaphor in the Odes of Pindar.^[4]

Awards

• 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• The traffic in praise: Pindar and the poetics of social economy, Cornell University Press, 1991,
• Cultural poetics in archaic Greece: cult, performance, politics, Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Oxford University Press, 1998,
• Coins, bodies, games, and gold: the politics of meaning in archaic Greece, Princeton University Press, 1999,
• The cultures within ancient Greek culture: contact, conflict, collaboration, Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Cambridge University Press, 2003,
• Aesopic conversations: popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose, Princeton University Press, 2011,

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faculty Profile: Leslie Kurke - UC Berkeley Department of Classics . classics.berkeley.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070510093414/http://classics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=4 . 2007-05-10.
2. Web site: DTA 2002 | Leslie Kurke . 2010-05-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100609200154/http://teaching.berkeley.edu/dta02/kurke.html . 2010-06-09 .
3. Web site: Bryn Mawr Now: Leslie Kurke '81 to Present a Classics Colloquium . 2010-05-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100719001336/http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2004-04-22/kurke.shtml . 2010-07-19 .
4. Book: Kurke, Leslie . Pindar's Oikonomia : the house as organizing metaphor in the odes of Pindar . 1988 . English.