Draft:Polly Low

Polly Low is a professor of the Classical Greek world, belonging to the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Prior to lecturing at Durham (starting in 2018), Low was part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Manchester (joining in 2003). Directly following her graduation from her Cambridge PhD, Low was a W.H.D.Rouse Research Fellow in Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge. Her research interests focus upon Ancient Greek political history, Greek interstate relations, Greek historiography (particularly Thucydides), and epigraphy.

Education

Low attended Manchester High school, then went on to attend Oxford for her undergraduate degree and Cambridge for her PhD.

Publications

Authored Books:

Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2019). Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections 7: Chatsworth. Attic Inscriptions Online

Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2019). Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections 8: Broomhall. Attic Inscriptions Online

Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2019). Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections 5: Lyme Park. Attic Inscriptions Online

Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2019). Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections 6: Leeds City Museum. Attic Inscriptions Online

Low, P. (2007). Interstate Relations in Classical Greece: Morality and Power. Cambridge University Press

Chapter in Book:

Low, P. (2023). Thucydides on Empire and Imperialism. In P. Low (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides (143-159). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316227442.013

Low, P. (2021). Xenia and Proxenia in Thucydides' Sparta. In A. Powell, & P. Debnar (Eds.), Thucydides and Sparta (163-182). Classical Press of Wales

Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2019). Four Unpublished Inscriptions (and One Neglected Collector) from the World Museum, Liverpool. In C. F. Noreña, & N. Papazarkadas (Eds.), From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World (408-430). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004382886_024

Low, P. (2018). Hegemonic Legitimacy (and its Absence) in Classical Greece. In M. Canevaro, A. Erskine, B. Gray, & J. Ober (Eds.), Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science (433-454). Edinburgh University Press

Low, P. (2017). State and Warlord in Classical Greece: From Bipolarity to Multipolarity. In T. Ñaco del Hoyo, & F. López Sánchez (Eds.), War, Warlords, and Interstate Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean (36-53). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004354050_004

Low, P. (2017). Thucydides on the Athenian Empire and Interstate Relations. In S. Forsdyke, E. Foster, & R. Balot (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides (99-114). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.013.22

Low, P. (2016). Lives from stone: epigraphy and biography in classical and Hellenistic Greece. In R. Fletcher, & J. Hanink (Eds.), Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity (147-174). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316670651.007

Low, P. (2014). Empire and crisis in fourth-century Greece. In V. Gouschin, & P. Rhodes (Eds.), Deformations and Crises of Ancient Civil Communities (63-72). Steiner

Low, P. (2013). Remembering and forgetting: the creation and destruction of inscribed monuments in Classical Athens. In J. Tumblety (Ed.), Memory and History: Understanding Memory as Source and Subject (71-87). Routledge

Low, P. (2013). Law, authority and legitimacy in the Athenian Empire. In J. Duindam, J. Harries, N. Hurvitz, & C. Humfress (Eds.), Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors (25-44). Brill Academic Publishers

Low, P. (2012). The Monuments to the War Dead in Classical Athens: Form, Contexts, Meanings. In P. Low, G. Oliver, & P. Rhodes (Eds.), Cultures of Commemoration (12-38). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264669.003.0002

Low, P. (2012). The Greek reply to the satraps’ revolt: peace, common peace and war in fourth-century Greece. In J. Wilker (Ed.), Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in Archaic and Classical Greece (118-134). Verlag Antike

Low, P. (2011). Athenian foreign policy and the quest for stability. In G. Herman (Ed.), Stability and Crisis in the Athenian Democracy (67-86). Steiner

Low, P. (2011). The power of the dead in Classical Sparta: the case of Thermopylae. In M. Carroll, & J. Rempel (Eds.), Living through the Dead: Burial and Commemoration in the Classical World (1-20). Oxbow Books

Low, P. (2011). Die Moral zwischenstaatlicher Politik im klassichen Griechenland: Thukydides und sein Kontext. In E. Baltrusch, & C. Wendt (Eds.), in Besitz für immer? Geschichte, Polis und Völkerrecht bei Thukydides (42-62). Nomos

Low, P. (2010). Remembering defeat and victory in democratic Athens. In D. Pritchard (Ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (341-358). Cambridge University Press

Low, P. (2009). The Athenian Empire. In G. Boys-Stones, B. Graziosi, & P. Vasunia (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (65-76). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286140.013.0006

Low, P. (2006). Commemorating the Spartan war dead. In A. Powell, & S. Hodkinson (Eds.), Sparta and War. Classical Press of Wales

Edited Book:

Low, P. (Ed.). (2023). The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316227442

Liddel, P., & Low, P. (Eds.). (2013). Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199665747.001.0001

Low, P. (Ed.). (2008). The Athenian Empire. Edinburgh University Press

Journal Article:

Low, P. (2024). The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, the Origins of the Peloponnesian War, and Theories of International Relations. Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 41(1), 76-91. https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340428

de Lisle, C., Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2022). Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections: National Museums Scotland. AIO papers, 14,

Low, P., & Liddel, P. (2021). A Greek Funerary Stele in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 219, 125-129

Low, P., & Liddel, P. (2021). Two Megarian inscriptions at Brocklesby Park (UK). The Journal of epigraphic studies, 4, 47-62. https://doi.org/10.19272/202113701004

Low, P. (2020). Remembering, forgetting, and rewriting the past: Athenian inscriptions and collective memory. Histos, Supplements(11), 235-268

Low, P. (2018). Panhellenism without Imperialism? Athens and the Greeks before and after Chaeronea. Historia, 67(4), 454-471. https://doi.org/10.25162/historia-2018-0018

Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2016). A new inscription from Liverpool and its afterlife: World Museum Liverpool 27.8.85.3. Hermathena, 200-201,

Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2015). An honorific gnome of the koinon of the Phrikyladai: a new inscription from Liverpool. Annual of the British School at Athens, 110, 263-284. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068245415000076

Low, P. (2005). Looking for the language of Athenian imperialism. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 125, 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426900007126

Low, P. (2003). Remembering war in fifth-century Greece: Ideologies, societies, and commemoration beyond democratic Athens. World Archaeology, 35(1), 98-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/0043824032000078108

Low, P. (2002). Cavalry identity and democratic ideology in early fourth-century Athens. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 48, 102-122. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068673500000857

Other Print:

Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2020). Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections 9: Brocklesby Park

Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2020). Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections 12: Great North Museum: Hancock