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Leslie Kurke

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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

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. ^ "Faculty Profile: Leslie Kurke - UC Berkeley Department of Classics". classics.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-05-10.
  2. ^ "DTA 2002 | Leslie Kurke". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  3. ^ "Bryn Mawr Now: Leslie Kurke '81 to Present a Classics Colloquium". Archived from the original on 2010-07-19. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  4. ^ Kurke, Leslie (1988). Pindar's Oikonomia : the house as organizing metaphor in the odes of Pindar.