AHMA Participating Faculty
Leslie V. Kurke, Ph.D. (Princeton, 1988)
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Greek Literature, Culture and Economy, Pindar, Herodotus, ancient ethnography, Aesop and Greek popular
culture.
kurke@berkeley.edu
Books:
Editor (with Carol Dougherty), The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece (Princeton University Press, 1999)
Editor (with Carol Dougherty), Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1993; paperback reprint, Oxford University Press, 1998)
The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (Cornell University Press, 1991)
Selected Articles:
"Aesop and the Contestation of Delphic Authority," in The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, ed. by C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 77-100.
"Gender, Politics, and Subversion in the Chreiai of Machon," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 48 (2002) pp. 20-65.
"Money and Mythic History: The Contestation of Transactional Orders in the Fifth Century BC," in The Ancient Economy, ed. Walter Scheidel and Sitta von Reden (Edinburgh University Press, 2002), pp. 88-113.
"The Strangeness of "Song Culture": Archaic Greek Poetry," and "Charting the Poles of History: Herodotos and Thoukydides," in Literature in the Greek & Roman Worlds: A New Perspective, ed. Oliver Taplin (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 58-87, 133-155.
"Ancient Greek Board Games and How to Play Them," Classical Philology 94 (1999) 247-267.
"The Cultural Impact of (on) Democracy: Decentering Tragedy," in Democracy 2500: Questions and Challenges, ed. by Ian Morris and Kurt Raaflaub (Archaeological Institute of America, Conference and Colloquia Papers, 1997), pp. 155-69.
"Inventing the Hetaira: Sex, Politics, and Discursive Conflict in Archaic Greece," Classical Antiquity 16 (1997) pp. 106-150.
"Herodotus and the Language of Metals," Helios 22 (1995) pp. 36-64.
"Crisis and Decorum in Sixth-Century Lesbos: Reading Alkaios Otherwise," Quaderni Urbinati di cultura classica, N.S. 47 (1994) pp. 67-92.
"The Politics of Habrosunê in Archaic Greece," Classical Antiquity 11 (1992) pp. 91-120.