Leslie Kurke

Awards and honors

• 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award, bestowed by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate's Committee on Teaching
• 2010 Elected to the American Philosophical Society
• 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, ; 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,.Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose, Princeton University Press, 2011,.
• Co-authored with Richard Neer, Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Edited volumes

• Editor, Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics, Oxford University Press, 1998,.
• Editor, The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, Cambridge University Press, 2003; paperback reprint, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Editor, 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, pp. 247-267, .
• "Choral Lyric as 'Ritualization': Poetic Sacrifice and Poetic Ego in Pindar's Sixth Paian," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 81-130, .
• "Counterfeit Oracles' and 'Legal Tender': The Politics of Oracular Consultation in Herodotus," The Classical World, Vol. 102, No. 4, pp. 417-43, .
• "Crisis and Decorum in Sixth-Century Lesbos: Reading Alkaios Otherwise," Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, New Series, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 67-92, .
• "A Dedicated Theory Class for Graduate Students," The Classical World, Vol. 108, No. 2, pp. 183-194, .
• "Fathers and Sons: A Note on Pindaric Ambiguity," The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 112, No. 3, pp. 287-300, .
• "For Mark", Classical Antiquity, Vol. 39, No. 2, .
• "Gender, Politics and Subverstion in the Chreiai of Machon," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, No. 48, pp. 20-65, .
• "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, pp. 238-265, .
• "Inventing the 'Hetaira': Sex, Politics, and Discursive Conflict in Archaic Greece," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 16, No. 1,, pp. 106-150, .
• "ΚΑΠΗΛΕΙΑ and Deceit: Theognis 59-60," The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 110, No. 4, pp. 535-544, .
• "Pindar and the Prostitutes, or Reading Ancient 'Pornography'," Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Third Series, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 49-75, .
• "Pindar's Pythian 11 and the Oresteia: Contestatory Ritual Poetics in the 5th c. BCE," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 101-175, .
• "Pindar's Sixth Pythian and the Tradition of Advice Poetry," Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 120, pp. 85-107, .
• "Plato, Aesop, and the Beginnings of Mimetic Prose," Representations, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 6-52, .
• "The Politics of ἁβροσύνη in Archaic Greece," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 91-120, .
• "Pudenda Asiae Minoris", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 96, pp. 75-83, .
• "The 'Rough Stones' of Aegina: Pindar, Pausanias, and the Topography of Aeginetan Justice," Classical Antiquity, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 236-287, .