Liv Mariah Yarrow

Liv Mariah Yarrow
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
ThesisNon-Roman portrayals of foreign affairs in the last century of the Republic : a study of the historical writings of Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus, and Pompeius Trogus (2000)

Liv Mariah Yarrow is a professor in classics at the City University of New York (CUNY) at Brooklyn College. She is known for her work on historiography and numismatics.

Education and career

Yarrow graduated from George Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts, reading Classical Humanities in 1998. She then went on to read an M.Phil. in Greek and Roman History (2000), and D.Phil. in Roman History (2003) from the University of Oxford.[1][2]

Yarrow is the co-director of the Roman Republican Die Project with Lucia Carbone at the American Numismatic Society. The project seeks to preserve and expand the work of Richard Schaefer with research into coins.[3]

In 2006 Yarrow was a Kraay Visiting Scholar at the Ashmolean Museum's Heberden Coin Room.[4]

Work

Yarrow has reported said that she "accidentally" found her way into her current field of work, encompassing historiography and numismatics.[5] Her current research involves classical reception, the Roman Republican representation of kings, and the metrology and metallurgy of early Roman bronze coinage.[6] She has also cataloging die though the Roman Republic Die Project.[5]

Awards and honours

Yarrow received the Lhokta Memorial Prize, which is awarded to the author whose work was considered the most helpful to an elementary student of numismatics, in 2022. She was awarded this for her work "The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources".[7]

Selected publications

  • Yarrow, L. M. (2006) Historiography at the End of the Republic: Provincial Perspectives on Roman Rule (Oxford: Oxford University Press)[8]
  • Yarrow, L. M. (2012) Imperialism, Cultural Politics, and Polybius: Studies in the History and Historiography of the Later Hellenistic Period eds. With C. Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press)[9]
  • Yarrow, L. M. (2018) “The Tree and Sunset Motif: The Long Shadow of Roman Imperialism on Representations of Africa”, Classical Receptions
  • Yarrow, L. M. (2018) ‘Romulus’ Apotheosis (RRC 392)’, American Journal of Numismatics 30, p. 145–161, pl. 31–34
  • Yarrow, L. M. (2021) The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: Using Coins as Sources (Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)[10]

References

  1. ^ Yarrow, Liv Mariah. Non-Roman portrayals of foreign affairs in the last century of the Republic : a study of the historical writings of Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus, and Pompeius Trogus. solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk (Thesis). Retrieved 2025-11-28.
  2. ^ Yarrow, Liv Mariah. "Our Faculty". Brooklyn College. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  3. ^ "Roman Republican Die Project". numismatics.org. Retrieved 2025-10-12.
  4. ^ "Visiting Scholars". The Heberden Coin Room. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  5. ^ a b Thompson, Charles (2021-05-12). "Telling History Through Coins". Brooklyn College. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  6. ^ "The Roman Republic to 49 BCE". American Numismatic Society. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  7. ^ "Yarrow Book Wins Royal Numismatic Society's Lhotka Prize". American Numismatic Society. 2023-06-26. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  8. ^ Reviews of Historiography at the End of the Republic
  9. ^ Reviews of Imperialism, Cultural Politics, and Polybius
  10. ^ Review of The Roman Republic to 49 BCE
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