Leslie Kurke

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.[1] 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[3]
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, ISBN 978-0-8014-2350-5; 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, ISBN 978-0-691-00736-6.
Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek
Prose, Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-69-114458-0.
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, ISBN 978-0-19-512415-6.
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 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/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 (https://www.jstor.org/sta
ble/10.1525/ca.2005.24.1.81).
"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 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/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
(https://www.jstor.org/stable/20547249).
"A Dedicated Theory Class for Graduate Students," The Classical World, Vol. 108, No. 2
(WINTER 2015), pp. 183-194, JSTOR 24699959 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/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 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/29473
2).
"For Mark" (with Mario Telò), Classical Antiquity, Vol. 39, No. 2 (October 2020), JSTOR
27220569 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/27220569).
"Gender, Politics and Subverstion in the Chreiai of Machon," Proceedings of the Cambridge
Philological Society, No. 48 (2002), pp. 20-65, JSTOR 44696777 (https://www.jstor.org/stabl
e/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 (https://www.jst
or.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w76v7d.18).
"Inventing the 'Hetaira': Sex, Politics, and Discursive Conflict in Archaic Greece," Classical
Antiquity, Vol. 16, No. 1, (Apr., 1997), pp. 106-150, JSTOR 25011056 (https://www.jstor.org/
stable/25011056).
"ΚΑΠΗΛΕΙΑ and Deceit: Theognis 59-60," The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 110, No.
4 (Winter, 1989), pp. 535-544, JSTOR 295278 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/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 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/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 (https://www.jstor.org/st
able/10.1525/ca.2013.32.1.101).
"Pindar's Sixth Pythian and the Tradition of Advice Poetry," Transactions of the American
Philological Association, Vol. 120 (1990), pp. 85-107, JSTOR 283980 (https://www.jstor.org/
stable/283980).
"Plato, Aesop, and the Beginnings of Mimetic Prose," Representations, Vol. 94, No. 1
(Spring 2006), pp. 6-52, JSTOR (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rep.2006.94.1.6).
"The Politics of ἁβροσύνη in Archaic Greece," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Apr.,
1992), pp. 91-120, JSTOR 25010964 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/25010964).
"Pudenda Asiae Minoris" (with Andrew Garrett), Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol.
96 (1994), pp. 75-83, JSTOR 311315 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/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
(https://www.jstor.org/stable/26362609).

References
1. "Leslie Kurke" (https://dagrs.berkeley.edu/people/leslie-kurke). dagrs.berkeley.edu.
Retrieved December 3, 2024.
2. Kurke, Leslie (1988). Pindar's Oikonomia : the house as organizing metaphor in the odes of
Pindar (https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/994876863506421).
3. "Distinguished Teaching awards announced" (https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/
releases/2007/04/24_dta.shtml). newsarchive.berkeley.edu. April 24, 2007. Retrieved
December 2, 2024.
4. "Two UC Berkeley scholars elected to America's oldest learned society" (https://vcresearch.
berkeley.edu/news/two-uc-berkeley-scholars-elected-americas-oldest-learned-society).
vcresearch.berkeley.edu. April 30, 2010. Retrieved December 2, 2024.

External links
Leslie Kurke CV (https://dagrs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2023-10/Kurke.cv_.Oct2023.p
df)

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