Polly Low
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Polly Low | |
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| Occupations | Classicist, historian, epigrapher |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD, 2002) |
| Thesis | Normative politics in Greek interstate relations, 411-322 BC (2002) |
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| Discipline | Ancient history |
Sub-discipline | Ancient Greek epigraphy |
| Institutions | Durham 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.[1]
Academic career
[edit]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.[2]
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).[1]
Digital outreach work
[edit]Low is one of the editors of Attic Inscriptions Online, a resource structured around annotated translations of Athenian inscriptions.[3] It contains around 3,000 entries and is widely used by researchers, educators, museums, students, and the general public.[4]
Books
[edit]As author
[edit]- Low, Polly (2007). Interstate Relations in Classical Greece: Morality and Power. Cambridge University Press.[5]
As editor
[edit]- Low, Polly, ed. (2008). The Athenian Empire. Edinburgh University Press.
- Low, Polly; Oliver, Graham; Rhodes, P. J., eds. (2012). Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern. Oxford University Press.[6][7]
- Liddel, Peter; Low, Polly, eds. (2013). Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665747.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-966574-7.[8][9]
- Low, Polly, ed. (2023). The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316227442. ISBN 978-1-316-22744-2.[10]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Professor Polly Low". Durham University. Archived from the original on 2025-05-18. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
- ↑ "Polly Low". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
- ↑ "About". Attic Inscriptions Online. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
- ↑ "Attic Inscriptions Online". Durham University. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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