Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave')
@profyarrow.bsky.social
Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Chair of Classics, Brooklyn College. Typo-Queen.
I treat this space like the office water cooler.
Blogging at livyarrow.org
I treat this space like the office water cooler.
Blogging at livyarrow.org
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Another intriguing defaced #coin for #FindsFriday. This time it's a quarter stater of the Coriosolitae, 15mm diameter, with multiple cuts on the obverse - mostly vertical (ten, I think) but there's a horizontal one too. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to deface this... #numismatics #archaeology 🏺
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Another intriguing defaced #coin for #FindsFriday. This time it's a quarter stater of the Coriosolitae, 15mm diameter, with multiple cuts on the obverse - mostly vertical (ten, I think) but there's a horizontal one too. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to deface this... #numismatics #archaeology 🏺
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‘When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”’
Actor stabbed with a real knife during a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. #drama #tragedy #edfringe www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre
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November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
‘When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”’
In which i go off on a tangent about display of wealth in a Roman triumphs but circle back to being super impressed by how De Callataÿ manages to quantify rates and volume of gold striking from the origins of coinage down to the end of the Hellenistic period. livyarrow.org/2025/11/27/q...
Quantifying Precious Metals
In an article published in 2007, I attempted to explore multiple perspectives to define the coined share of precious metals in the Hellenistic world. Somewhat to my surprise, it repeatedly emerged …
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November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
In which i go off on a tangent about display of wealth in a Roman triumphs but circle back to being super impressed by how De Callataÿ manages to quantify rates and volume of gold striking from the origins of coinage down to the end of the Hellenistic period. livyarrow.org/2025/11/27/q...
Under 35?! Find yourself writing about coins? Have an longish unpublished piece you'd like to see get some attention?! Perhaps you have student who recently submitted a kickass numismatic thesis you want to promote?
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Under 35?! Find yourself writing about coins? Have an longish unpublished piece you'd like to see get some attention?! Perhaps you have student who recently submitted a kickass numismatic thesis you want to promote?
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I've been working with this book recently and I've found it fairly useful. It isn't perfect—there are a few flubs with the pinyin and Sanskrit, and I think it needed more decisive input from an editor—but the selection of texts is good and I've learned a lot so far.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I've been working with this book recently and I've found it fairly useful. It isn't perfect—there are a few flubs with the pinyin and Sanskrit, and I think it needed more decisive input from an editor—but the selection of texts is good and I've learned a lot so far.
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Roland Barthes on why getting up early is never as good as it is meant to be:
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Roland Barthes on why getting up early is never as good as it is meant to be:
My beloved reports he would have to pay 10 quid to go see Karl Marx’s grave. (Highgate cemetery entry fee). This feels wrong.
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
My beloved reports he would have to pay 10 quid to go see Karl Marx’s grave. (Highgate cemetery entry fee). This feels wrong.
Every time we order a book from my small town indie, the owner orders an extra copy, figuring, he says, if our family likes it, he’d like his other customers to have the chance to peruse. It has encouraged us order more from the shop…
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Every time we order a book from my small town indie, the owner orders an extra copy, figuring, he says, if our family likes it, he’d like his other customers to have the chance to peruse. It has encouraged us order more from the shop…
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🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
A hodgepodge of reading notes in which I discover I rather strongly believe Rome is part of not separate from the Hellenistic world by the last half of the 3rd century: livyarrow.org/2025/11/26/r...
Reprising De Callataÿ on Plautus
I’m still pre-writing and still working my way through AVREVS with an eye to fuzzy boundaries of periodization, culture groups, and by extension disciplinarity in numismatics. For full citati…
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November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A hodgepodge of reading notes in which I discover I rather strongly believe Rome is part of not separate from the Hellenistic world by the last half of the 3rd century: livyarrow.org/2025/11/26/r...
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Always fight back when they try to close you down. Because even when it looks hopeless, you'll never know that you might actually win.
Bravo @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social
Bravo @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Always fight back when they try to close you down. Because even when it looks hopeless, you'll never know that you might actually win.
Bravo @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social
Bravo @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social
When you’re braced for an R&R or even rejection and you open the email to find accepted with minor revisions and many nice words. It is one of my first historiographical pieces in a while and my first on Dionysius.
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
When you’re braced for an R&R or even rejection and you open the email to find accepted with minor revisions and many nice words. It is one of my first historiographical pieces in a while and my first on Dionysius.
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OMG look what was on my doorstep! i haven’t seen the print version yet, but it’s prettier than i expected!!
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
OMG look what was on my doorstep! i haven’t seen the print version yet, but it’s prettier than i expected!!
Not what I was looking for, BUT... on ethnicity, diets, bodily forms, and enslavement this is most intriguing. The recommendation is in short to purchase a woman who can make an particular ethnic food, and that you will want her to be well fed herself (as a sign of her skill? as desirable body?)
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Not what I was looking for, BUT... on ethnicity, diets, bodily forms, and enslavement this is most intriguing. The recommendation is in short to purchase a woman who can make an particular ethnic food, and that you will want her to be well fed herself (as a sign of her skill? as desirable body?)
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
Notice the staff. Can you tell me what the staff is?! It does not appear on the republican designs which inspired this type. livyarrow.org/2021/01/19/s...
Subsellium
ANS specimen Another ANS Specimen I want to think about how RIC Augustus 407 intersects with Republican types of Caepio Piso and also the Plebeian Aedile issue of the Cinnan regime, not to mention …
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November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Notice the staff. Can you tell me what the staff is?! It does not appear on the republican designs which inspired this type. livyarrow.org/2021/01/19/s...
Google scholar has a glitch in my record of publications that I find v v amusing. There is a proper entry for my 2021 book, but there is also a line attributing to 1945 with significant citations. If I was in a field that gave rat's ass about h-index scores, I'm guess this would be more upsetting.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Google scholar has a glitch in my record of publications that I find v v amusing. There is a proper entry for my 2021 book, but there is also a line attributing to 1945 with significant citations. If I was in a field that gave rat's ass about h-index scores, I'm guess this would be more upsetting.
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zines as samizdat, now coming to america
I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
zines as samizdat, now coming to america
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I know the #iTeachMath feed collects posts relating to maths education, but is there a feed more geared towards recreational maths?
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I know the #iTeachMath feed collects posts relating to maths education, but is there a feed more geared towards recreational maths?
GOOD NEWS Ancient Greek 2 already as 13 students registered for Spring semester. BC students tend to delay registration because of financial constraints, so this number will go up. 1/
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
GOOD NEWS Ancient Greek 2 already as 13 students registered for Spring semester. BC students tend to delay registration because of financial constraints, so this number will go up. 1/
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A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights.
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
The law has failed a woman and her child – fight back
No survivor should face harm from the very system that is meant to protect them. No child should have to carry an abuser’s name. It’s time to change the system.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights.
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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Get them, MacArthur Fellow Jeffrey Miller
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Get them, MacArthur Fellow Jeffrey Miller
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Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
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Cambridge University Press
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
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A post that started out about orthography and monograms, and ended up being about obscure aspects of Roman religion. livyarrow.org/2025/11/18/b...
Broken Bar A (?)
The obverse monogram on RRC 298/1 is typically resolved as AP for Apollo, although Veovis is another proposed identification of the deity, and those prefer this ID sometimes question if this readin…
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November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A post that started out about orthography and monograms, and ended up being about obscure aspects of Roman religion. livyarrow.org/2025/11/18/b...
A post that started out about orthography and monograms, and ended up being about obscure aspects of Roman religion. livyarrow.org/2025/11/18/b...
Broken Bar A (?)
The obverse monogram on RRC 298/1 is typically resolved as AP for Apollo, although Veovis is another proposed identification of the deity, and those prefer this ID sometimes question if this readin…
livyarrow.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A post that started out about orthography and monograms, and ended up being about obscure aspects of Roman religion. livyarrow.org/2025/11/18/b...