Leslie V. Kurke (born 1959) is a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and

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. She graduated from

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United ...

with a B.A. in 1981, and from

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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, *''Cultural poetics in archaic Greece: cult, performance, politics'', Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Oxford University Press, 1998,
''Coins, bodies, games, and gold: the politics of meaning in archaic Greece''
Princeton University Press, 1999,
''The cultures within ancient Greek culture: contact, conflict, collaboration''
Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Cambridge University Press, 2003, * ''Aesopic conversations: popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose'', Princeton University Press, 2011,

References

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