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Name
  
Leslie Kurke


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Education
  
Princeton University, Bryn Mawr College

Books
  
Aesopic Conversations: Popular T, Coins - Bodies - Games - a, The Traffic in Praise: Pindar an

Leslie Kurke (born 1959) is a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley.

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She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1981, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1988.

Awards

  • 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program

    • 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

    Leslie Kurke Wikipedia
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