Leslie Kurke

Leslie Kurke (born September 9, 1959 ) is an American classical philologist ( Greek studies ).

Life

She earned a BA in Greek Literature summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1981 , an MA in Classics from Princeton University in 1984 and a PhD in Classics from Princeton University in 1988 . From 1987 to 1990 she was a Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, at Harvard University and has since taught at the University of California, Berkeley (since 1999 Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1994–1999 Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, 1990– 1994 Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature).

Kurke works mainly on the culture and cultural poetics of archaic Greece. She dedicated monographs to Pindar and Aesop .

Fonts (selection)

• The traffic in praise. Pindar and the poetics of social economy . Ithaca 1991, ISBN 978-0-8014-2350-5 .
• as editor with Carol Dougherty : Cultural poetics in archaic Greece. Cult, performance, politics . Oxford 1998, ISBN 978-0-19-512415-6 .
• Coins, bodies, games, and gold. The politics of meaning in archaic Greece . Princeton 1999, ISBN 978-0-691-00736-6 .
• Aesopic Conversations. Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose . Princeton 2011, ISBN 978-0-69-114458-0 .

Web links

• academia.edu
• Leslie Kurke - Gladys Rehard Wood Chair, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature