Leslie Kurke
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature

Greek Literature and Culture, Archaic Greek poetry, Herodotus
B.A. 1981 Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D. 1988 Princeton University

Group: Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology

Contact information

Office: 4331 Dwinelle Hall
Email: kurke@berkeley.edu
Office phone: (510) 642-2054
Alternate phone: (510) 642-4218
Fax: (510) 643-2959

Office hours: W 1:30-2:30 pm, Th 2:15-3:15 pm

Mailing address:
7233 Dwinelle Hall #2520
Berkeley, CA 94720-2520

Selected publications

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

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