T H E R O M A N R E P U B L I C T O 4 9 B C E T H E N A R R AT I V E O F R O M A N H I S T O RY H A S B E E N L A R G E LY S H A P E D BY T H E S U R V I V I N G L I T E R A RY S O U R C E S , A U G M E N T E D I N P L A C E S BY M AT E R I A L C U LT U R E . T H E N U M E R O U S S U R V I V I N G C O I N S C A N , H O W E V E R , P R O V I D E N E W I N F O R M AT I O N O N T H E D I S TA N T PA S T. T H I S A C C E S S I B L E B U T A U T H O R I TAT I V E G U I D E I N T R O D U C E S T H E S T U D E N T O F A N C I E N T H I S T O RY T O T H E VA R I O U S WAY S I N W H I C H T H E Y C A N H E L P U S U N D E R S TA N D T H E H I S T O RY O F T H E R O M A N R E P U B L I C , W I T H F R E S H I N S I G H T S O N E A R LY R O M A N – I TA L I A N R E L AT I O N S , R O M A N I M P E R I A L I S M , U R B A N P O L I T I C S , C O N S T I T U T I O N A L H I S T O RY, T H E R I S E O F P O W E R F U L G E N E R A L S , A N D M U C H M O R E . T H E T E X T I S A C C O M PA N I E D BY O V E R 2 0 0 I L L U S T R AT I O N S O F C O I N S , W I T H D E TA I L E D C A P T I O N S , A S W E L L A S M A P S A N D D I A G R A M S , S O T H AT I T A L S O F U N C T I O N S A S A S O U R C E B O O K O F T H E K E Y C O I N S E V E RY S T U D E N T O F T H E P E R I O D S H O U L D K N O W. T H R O U G H O U T, I T D E M Y S T I F I E S T H E M O R E T E C H N I C A L A S P E C T S O F T H E F I E L D O F N U M I S M AT I C S A N D E N D S W I T H A H O W-T O G U I D E F O R F U R T H E R R E S E A R C H F O R N O N - S P E C I A L I S T S . Liv Mariah Yarrow is Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College and Classics and History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her previous books include Historiography at the End of the Republic: Provincial Perspectives on Roman Rule (2006) and Polybius, Imperialism and Cultural Politics (edited with Christopher Smith, 2012). She codirects, with Lucia Carbone, the Roman Republican Die Project at the American Numismatic Society, and her ongoing research includes classical reception, the Roman Republican representation of kings, and the metallurgy and metrology of early Roman bronze coinage. At Brooklyn College she specializes in the creation of Open Educational Resources and large interactive general education courses presenting Classics to a modern audience. She also blogs regularly at livyarrow.org.