Books

• Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose, Princeton University Press, 2011
• Editor (with Carol Dougherty), The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (paperback reprint, Cambridge University Press, 2011)
• 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

Articles & Book Chapters

• 2009 “‘Counterfeit Oracles’ and ‘Legal Tender’: The Politics of Oracular Consultation in Herodotus,” Classical World 102.4: 417-38.
• 2007 “Archaic Greek Poetry,” in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece, ed. H. A. Shapiro (Cambridge University Press), pp. 141-68.“Visualizing the Choral: Epichoric Poetry, Ritual, and Elite Negotiation in FifthCentury Thebes,” in Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature, ed. C. Kraus, S. Goldhill, H. P. Foley, and J. Elsner (Oxford University Press), pp. 63-101.
• 2006 “Plato, Aesop, and the Beginnings of Mimetic Prose,” Representations 94: 6-52.
• 2005 “Choral Lyric as ‘Ritualization’: Poetic Sacrifice and Poetic Ego in Pindar’s Sixth Paian,” Classical Antiquity 24: 81-130.

• 2003 “Introduction: The Cultures within Greek Culture,” (with C. Dougherty) in The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, ed. by C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-19.“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), pp. 77-100.
• 2002 “Gender, Politics, and Subversion in the Chreiai of Machon,” Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society  48: 20-65.“Greek Games and Ideologies in the Archaic and Classical Periods,” Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 11.1: 15-50.“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), pp. 88-113.

• 2000 “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), pp. 58-87, 133-155.L. KURKE  3    
• 1999 “Ancient Greek Board Games and How to Play Them,” Classical Philology 94: 247-267.

• 1997 “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), pp. 155–69.“Inventing the Hetaira: Sex, Politics, and Discursive Conflict in Archaic Greece,” Classical Antiquity 16: 106–150.
• 1996 “Pindar and the Prostitutes, or Reading Ancient ‘Pornography’,” Arion (3rd series) 4, no. 2: 49–75; reprinted in Constructions of the Classical Body, ed. by James I. Porter (Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 1999), pp. 101–25.

• 1995 “Herodotus and the Language of Metals,” Helios 22: 36–64.
• 1994 “Pudenda Asiae Minoris” (with Andrew Garrett), Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 96: 75–83.“Crisis and Decorum in Sixth–Century Lesbos: Reading Alkaios Otherwise,” Quaderni Urbinati di cultura classica, N.S. 47: 67–92.
• 1993 “Introduction” (with Carol Dougherty), in Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics, ed. by Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke (Cambridge University Press), pp. 1–13. “The Economy of Kudos,” in Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics, ed. by Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke (Cambridge University Press), pp. 131–63.
• 1992 “The Politics of ἁβροσύνη in Archaic Greece,” Classical Antiquity 11: 91–120.
• 1991 “Fathers and Sons: A Note on Pindaric Ambiguity,” American Journal of Philology 112: 287–300.
• 1990 “Pindar’s Sixth Pythian and the Tradition of Advice Poetry,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 120: 85–107
• 1989 “ΚΑΠΗΛΕΙΑ and Deceit: Theognis 59–60,” American Journal of Philology 110: 535–44.“Pouring Prayers: A Formula of Indo–European Sacral Poetry?,” Journal of Indo–European Studies 17: 113–25.
• 1988 “The Poet’s Pentathlon: Genre in Pindar’s First Isthmian,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 29: 97–113