Polly Low

Polly Low
OccupationsClassicist, historian, epigrapher
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Oxford (BA)
University of Cambridge (PhD, 2002)
ThesisNormative politics in Greek interstate relations, 411-322 BC (2002)
Academic work
DisciplineAncient history
Sub-discipline
Ancient Greek epigraphy
InstitutionsDurham University

Polly Alexandra Low is a classical scholar and ancient historian. She is Professor of Ancient History at Durham University, and was previously a professor at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the political history of the Classical Greek World, and in the history and ideology of Greek interstate relations.

Academic career

Polly Low received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oxford, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 2002. Her thesis was titled "Normative politics in Greek interstate relations, 411-322 BC". Following her PhD, she was elected as the W.H.D. Rouse Fellow in Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge.[citation needed]

In 2017, Low was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Low has published multiple books on Greek history and epigraphy, including Interstate Relations in Classical Greece: Morality and Power (2007), Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature (2013, with Peter Liddel) and The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides (2023).

Digital outreach work

Low is one of the editors of Attic Inscriptions Online, a resource structured around annotated translations of Athenian inscriptions. It contains around 3,000 entries and is widely used by researchers, educators, museums, students, and the general public.

Books

As author

As editor

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Polly Low". Durham University. Archived from the original on 2025-05-18. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  2. ↑ "Polly Low". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  3. ↑ "About". Attic Inscriptions Online. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  4. ↑ "Attic Inscriptions Online". Durham University. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  5. ↑ Herman, Gabriel (2020-04-25). "Polly Low, Interstate Relations in Classical Greece. Morality and Power, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 313 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-87206-5". Scripta Classica Israelica. 29: 104–106. doi:10.71043/sci.v29i.3175. ISSN 2731-2933.
  6. ↑ "Polly Low, Graham Oliver, and P. J. Rhodes, editors. Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern". The American Historical Review. 119 (2): 660–660. April 2014. doi:10.1093/ahr/119.2.660b. ISSN 1937-5239.
  7. ↑ Winter, Jay (January 2014). "Book Review: Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials Ancient and Modern by Polly Low, Graham Oliver, and P.J. Rhodes". War in History. 21 (1): 120–121. doi:10.1177/0968344513505934. ISSN 0968-3445.
  8. ↑ Dell'Oro, Francesca (2016). "Peter Liddel & Polly Low (éd.), Inscriptions and their uses in Greek and Latin literature". Anabases. 24: 356–357. doi:10.4000/anabases.5778. ISSN 1774-4296.
  9. ↑ Meyer, Elizabeth A. (December 2016). "Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature Edited by P.Liddel and P.Low. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 403. $185.00". Religious Studies Review. 42 (4): 281–281. doi:10.1111/rsr.12679. ISSN 0319-485X.
  10. ↑ Morley, Neville (February 2024). "Polly Low (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 382 pp., ISBN 9781107107052". Society. 61 (1): 131–134. doi:10.1007/s12115-023-00941-x. ISSN 0147-2011.