Leslie Kurke Explained

Leslie V. Kurke (born 1959) is a professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1981 (B.A. Greek Literature) and from Princeton University (M.A, Ph.D. Classics) in 1988. Her doctoral thesis was Pindar's Oikonomia: The House as Organizing Metaphor in the Odes of Pindar.^[2]

Kurke is married to another professor at Berkeley, Andrew Garrett.^[3]

Awards and honors

• 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award, bestowed by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate's Committee on Teaching
• 2010 Elected to the American Philosophical Society^[4]
• 2020 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in Classics, for Pindar, Song, and Space

Publications

Books

• The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy, Cornell University Press, 1991, ; second online edition: California Classical Studies Number 1, eScholarship Repository, 2013, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/29r3j0gm.
• Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece, Princeton University Press, 1999, .
• Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose, Princeton University Press, 2011, .
• Co-authored with Richard Neer, Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Edited volumes

• Editor (with Carol Dougherty), Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics, Oxford University Press, 1998, .
• Editor (with Carol Dougherty), The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, Cambridge University Press, 2003; paperback reprint, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Editor (with Margaret Foster and Naomi Weiss), Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models, Brill, 2020.

Selected articles

• "Ancient Greek Board Games and How to Play Them," Classical Philology, Vol. 94, No. 3 (Jul., 1999), pp. 247-267, JSTOR 270405.
• "Choral Lyric as 'Ritualization': Poetic Sacrifice and Poetic Ego in Pindar's Sixth Paian," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 24, No. 1 (April 2005), pp. 81-130, JSTOR.
• "Counterfeit Oracles' and 'Legal Tender': The Politics of Oracular Consultation in Herodotus," The Classical World, Vol. 102, No. 4 (SUMMER 2009), pp. 417-43, JSTOR 40599876.
• "Crisis and Decorum in Sixth-Century Lesbos: Reading Alkaios Otherwise," Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, New Series, Vol. 47, No. 2 (1994), pp. 67-92, JSTOR 20547249.
• "A Dedicated Theory Class for Graduate Students," The Classical World, Vol. 108, No. 2 (WINTER 2015), pp. 183-194, JSTOR 24699959.
• "Fathers and Sons: A Note on Pindaric Ambiguity," The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 112, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 287-300, JSTOR 294732.
• "For Mark" (with Mario Telò), Classical Antiquity, Vol. 39, No. 2 (October 2020), JSTOR 27220569.
• "Gender, Politics and Subverstion in the Chreiai of Machon," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, No. 48 (2002), pp. 20-65, JSTOR 44696777.
• "Gendered Spheres and Mythic Models in Sappho’s Brothers Poem," Chapter 11 in The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4: Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, vol. 2, Brill (2016), pp. 238-265, JSTOR Open Access.
• "Inventing the 'Hetaira': Sex, Politics, and Discursive Conflict in Archaic Greece," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 16, No. 1, (Apr., 1997), pp. 106-150, JSTOR 25011056.
• "ΚΑΠΗΛΕΙΑ and Deceit: Theognis 59-60," The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 110, No. 4 (Winter, 1989), pp. 535-544, JSTOR 295278.
• "Pindar and the Prostitutes, or Reading Ancient 'Pornography'," Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Third Series, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall, 1996), pp. 49-75, JSTOR 20163615.
• "Pindar's Pythian 11 and the Oresteia: Contestatory Ritual Poetics in the 5th c. BCE," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 32, No. 1 (April 2013), pp. 101-175, JSTOR.
• "Pindar's Sixth Pythian and the Tradition of Advice Poetry," Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 120 (1990), pp. 85-107, JSTOR 283980.
• "Plato, Aesop, and the Beginnings of Mimetic Prose," Representations, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 6-52, JSTOR.
• "The Politics of ἁβϱοσύνη in Archaic Greece," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Apr., 1992), pp. 91-120, JSTOR 25010964.
• "Pudenda Asiae Minoris" (with Andrew Garrett), Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 96 (1994), pp. 75-83, JSTOR 311315.
• "The 'Rough Stones' of Aegina: Pindar, Pausanias, and the Topography of Aeginetan Justice," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 36, No. 2 (October 2017), pp. 236-287, JSTOR 26362609.

External links

• Leslie Kurke CV

Notes and References

1. Web site: Leslie Kurke . dagrs.berkeley.edu . December 3, 2024.
2. Book: Kurke, Leslie . Pindar's Oikonomia : the house as organizing metaphor in the odes of Pindar . 1988 . English.
3. Web site: Distinguished Teaching awards announced . newsarchive.berkeley.edu . December 2, 2024 . April 24, 2007.
4. Web site: Two UC Berkeley scholars elected to America's oldest learned society . vcresearch.berkeley.edu . April 30, 2010 . December 2, 2024.