Polly Low

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.

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