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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 22h

TIL opium comes from ὄπιον (ópion), a diminutive form of ὀπός (opós). [I had been finding it amusing how much otium (Latin for leisure) sounded like opium, so I had to check out the actual etymology.]

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The brutality of this passage really got me. The dehumanization. Cic. De Orat. 3.126

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I found myself needing check the bonkers things people attribute to this man. This website helps. But now I get to see ALL the nutty things. www.trumpstruth.org

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️🐒⌨️ (Cic. ND 2.93)

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Perhaps I'm not the best financial advisor. Homes are for Shelter. Wine is for drinking. Art is for inspiration. Antiquities are the responsibility of their country and cultures of origin. Coin collections... no idea what those for... ...teaching?

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wondered how much I'd written about various RRC types on my blog. The answer is about 53%. But with much higher coverage in certain areas like 82% of RRC 300-399 and 75% of 400-499. Should I ever get bored maybe I'll try to fill in the blanks. Or maybe not. livyarrow.org/rrc-index/

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"bracelet consists of nine coins ... all worn (perhaps because of their modern use as a necklace) [the 1960] caption says “monete d’argento campane trovate a Loreto del Barone Mazzoccolo,” so the coins would have been found in the Loreto area, where there was an earlier temple site" 1/

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Publication day is great, but PROOFS DAY is sometimes more thrilling. IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. It feels like the moment we shift from theoretical publication to manifested publication. It's been a hot minute since I've seen my historiographical stuff on the printed page. This chapter is timely.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pre-8 am post about a lovely occupational relief in the Liverpool Museum. livyarrow.org/2026/09/18/d... [there are so many fabulous antiquities not on display but instead stuck in deep storage, particularly in underfunded regional museums]

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I found the bit of information I needed, but also learned that BSky thinks a full frontal drawing of Hercules is 'adult' 😱😂🙃

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trying to check a citation and being distracted by pretty pictures archive.org/details/in.g...:

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wasn't being hyperbolic about physical infrastructure.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Research reality at underfunded HE institutions... I love my job. I believe in CUNY. It is way harder to do research here than at some places. Just facts. I don't even begrudge the budgeting decisions about subscriptions when the roof is caving in on the physical library and archives.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't really endorse this meme but I needed something to get your eye balls. QUESTION: Do you have a PR article you'd recommend on Tech Bro Stocisim? Or at least something more thoughtful or deeper than most hot takes on Marcus Aurelius in Silicon Valley?

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've just sent @egarcmol.bsky.social an fancy abstract for a talk next month at UIllinois, but my whole thesis is basically just:

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For everyone teaching Augustan Portraiture. YOU'RE WELCOME

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is why we do not let the robots think for us.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I check what posts are getting traffic on my blog. Today this nine year old post seems to have been revived by some one and being shared. It seems to hold up. What did I miss? livyarrow.org/2017/09/14/h...

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I use LLMs. Not to write. I like writing. But it really saves time with data extraction and manipulation. See this prompt. Are there errors in the transcription? Yup. Is it easier to fix these errors than manually transcribe or try to copy paste absolutely. 1/

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Imagine if journals still published lists of everyone and every institution who had a subscription. Wild.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks @sentantiq.bsky.social for this amazing opportunity. I might be a little sad today looking back at time well spent at Brooklyn College, but we're going to do great things at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social!

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This one hit home. Whatever, your views we are all being harmed in all sorts of ways for individuals who care nothing for us.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is the cartoonist making a subtle joke about events on the island of Skyros?!

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's a dance lesson. BUT it sure looks like the potty dance! Let the kiddos go already! OK!?! www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

While the Romans did have things the look like modern fantasy war-hammers, really they were just quarry tools. Still the spikes are bad ass and I wouldn't recommend sneaking up on a Roman stone mason in a dark alley.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Even the Romans liked a Greek Toe, today more accurately called Morton's Toe. Don't fall for the memes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%...

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Apparently c. 79 BCE Dynamic Quadrupod was a popular means of gripping a writing implement. I'm a Dynamic Tripod girl myself. YOU?! numismatics.org/rrdp/id/rrc-...

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hunting with a bare bottom seems a supremely bad idea. Does Diana even want your offering? Your friends seem judgy. collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This dedication was found in the same Laconian danctuary. I love the close similarity in the depiction of 'necessary' personal objects. This 'compact' has space for only three pigments . BM 1861,0523.1

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Isn't lovely how little has changed?! Notice in the bottom right corner the makeup "compact" with six pigments and a protective lid! Above it the funny thing like a thumb is the pestle of a mortar for grinding fine powders. BM 1861,0523.2

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm sorry, not sorry. This came up in my search for sella curulis. If I have to see it you have to see it. Someone was channeling Caravaggio a little too hard.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One of the things I love about maintaining a blog as an open notebook of my research ideas and thoughts. Is the ease with which I can drop in materials to older posts and accumulate material on a theme over many many years. It may go nowhere but it gives me pleasure. livyarrow.org/2021/05/26/n...

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I realized today that because I'm so used to seeing clay lamps and bronze lamps missing their lids I've rather completely for gotten that lids for bronze lamps were NORMAL in antiquity. I've corrected my thinking.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The new assistant librarians are working out just fine. A little thread.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Any one have a digital scan of this book before I just go ahead and buy a used copy and have it shipped across the globe v v slowly?

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

TIL there are depictions of board games on Etruscan mirrors! 1/2

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've been thinking about the aquila in the triumphal car under Augustus. I think it probably is a visual attempt to credit the legions with the victory rather than centering oneself as commander/triumphator. Probably not an original thought but a nice bit of rhetoric.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hello Military Historian Friends. Is there a name for the horizontal bar that appears on some standards? Does it have a particular symbolism? What is hanging down from it? @equipmentroman.bsky.social @bretdevereaux.bsky.social @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social @profpaulj.bsky.social Others?

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Most of us know the tavern scene frescoes Pompeii (VI 14 35-36) because they were cut out and sent to MANN BUT thanks to Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR we now have many pictures of the very similar set still in situ (VI.10.1/19) pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

TIL that gold glass medallions could be worked into domestic decor!! pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...

VI.16.7 Pompeii. From an undated rare vintage postcard.

Cubiculum I, glass medallion found on the east end (right side) of the north wall.

Photo courtesy of Davide Peluso.

VI.16.7 Pompeii. September 2015. Cubiculum I, looking north along east wall.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So we all know this scene from the Villa of the Mysteries with something 'mysterious' being unveiled in the basket next to a winged figure. Now look at this campana plaque in the Louvre. (1) collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Gorgeous by I really wish they had skipped showing the birds shoved into the basket... Looks v uncomfortable arachne.dainst.org/entity/2197549

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Blue stripes on dish towels have apparently been around for a v v long time.

I.6.2 Pompeii. West end of south wall of oecus, wall painting of still-life with cock, basket of fruit and a towel

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