Polly Low
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Polly Low | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Classicist, historian, epigrapher |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Oxford, University of Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| 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]
Polly Low studied for her BA at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2002 with a thesis entitled '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.
In 2017, she was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.[2]
She 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).[3]
