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Professor Polly Low's Outputs (11)

The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, the Origins of the Peloponnesian War, and Theories of International Relations (2024)
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

This article investigates the theoretical assumptions and implications of De Ste. Croix’s approach to interstate politics in The Origins of the Peloponnesian War. It suggests that two approaches can be identified in the work: one which sees a fundame... Read More about The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, the Origins of the Peloponnesian War, and Theories of International Relations.

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

The inscription presented in this volume, a first-century AD ephebic list in the collection of the National Museums Scotland (NMS), has never previously been published. Peter Liddel and Polly Low found a reference to it in an online catalogue in 2018... Read More about Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections: National Museums Scotland.

Two Megarian inscriptions at Brocklesby Park (UK) (2021)
Journal Article
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

In this article we publish two Greek inscriptions, possibly or probably from ancient Megara, which are now in the collection of the Earl of Yarborough at Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire, UK. The inscriptions have not been subject to scholarly examinati... Read More about Two Megarian inscriptions at Brocklesby Park (UK).

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

This chapter explores the ways in which the Athenians responded to inscriptions after their creation, and in particular their approaches to the emendation, destruction, and recreation of inscribed public texts. It argues that these approaches reveal... Read More about Remembering, forgetting, and rewriting the past: Athenian inscriptions and collective memory.

Panhellenism without Imperialism? Athens and the Greeks before and after Chaeronea (2018)
Journal Article
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

This article explores the shifting definition(s) of Panhellenism in fourth century Athenian political discourse, and argues that the flexibility of the concept can help to explain how the Athenians are able to continue to utilise this idea in their p... Read More about Panhellenism without Imperialism? Athens and the Greeks before and after Chaeronea.

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

We publish here the first edition of a fragmentary Greek inscription on marble which has been held in the museum storerooms of Liverpool since 1885. It is interpreted as a decree of an unknown body honouring an individual, Mnasarchos, for his assista... Read More about A new inscription from Liverpool and its afterlife: World Museum Liverpool 27.8.85.3.

An honorific gnome of the koinon of the Phrikyladai: a new inscription from Liverpool (2015)
Journal Article
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

This article publishes a new decree from the storerooms of Liverpool's World Museum. We provide a text and translation of the document, and discuss difficulties in reading the text as well as restorations where the stone is illegible. We offer an app... Read More about An honorific gnome of the koinon of the Phrikyladai: a new inscription from Liverpool.