BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 217 the Lives emerges from the translation as a more elegant stylist than he deserves. Roisman and Worthington are responsible for the commentary on the Lives, which constitutes the bulk of the book. It is thorough, with particularly comprehensive and up-to-date citation of bibliography. A large quantity of often difficult material is very usefully analyzed. It is not intended as any serious criticism to observe that in places the commentary is fuller than strictly necessary (e.g., 218–219 on Meidias). At the same time, it is dense with cross-references, parentheses both square and round, and abbreviations. In this regard, I wish that Roisman and Worthington had come up with a more elegant way to refer to the author of the Lives than as “[Plut.].” In short, as a commentary it serves its purpose admirably, and for anyone who works on the Attic Orators it will be an essential resource. The commentary is followed by separate sections on Photius, on the Suda, and on the texts of three Athenian “decrees” that have been transmitted along with the Lives (Mor. 850f–852e). In each case the translation is furnished with footnotes rather than a separate commentary. For Photius and the Suda this is a good choice, since many of the comments consist of cross-references to the fuller commentary on the Lives. The three Athenian texts are loosely referred to as decrees or inscriptions; they are in fact petitions: by Demosthenes’ nephew Demochares requesting posthumous honours for his uncle, by Demochares’ son Laches asking for honours for his father, and by Lycophron requesting privileges for himself on the basis of a decree in honour of his father Lycurgus, which he quotes. There is thus only one actual decree, which is also partially preserved on stone (IG ii2 457 + 3207).4 The statement that pseudo-Plutarch “quotes” these texts (23) is also slightly inaccurate; he certainly alludes to their substance, but the texts themselves are merely appended to the Lives. Both because of their interest and for ease of reference it might have been preferable to leave them attached to the individual Lives, where they could have benefited from detailed commentary. In particular, whilst I have no reason to dispute the claim that “Except for some editorial changes and omissions, the inscriptions appear authentic” (23), I would have liked to see the point demonstrated. One final point of information may be of use to readers of the book: Craig Cooper’s unpublished PhD dissertation (1992), to which frequent reference is made, can be freely downloaded from the University of British Columbia’s library website.5 York University Jeremy Trevett Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth. By Tara S. Welch. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. 2015. Pp. xii, 331. This is an interesting and wide-ranging book, the first comprehensive monograph on the topic since Ganszyniec’s now out-dated work of 1949.1 Welch’s book makes two useful contributions to the scholarship. Firstly, it brings Tarpeia up to date, demonstrating how the many variations of this myth can be better understood in light of current scholarship on broader themes in Roman culture (including constructions of gender, trends and techniques in ancient historiography, the role of the gaze/viewer in Roman visual culture, and the social and political tensions operative in Augustan elegy). Secondly, Welch’s book recognizes and embraces the multivalence of Tarpeia’s story, and 4 Translated at https://www.atticinscriptions.com/inscription/IGII2/457-3207. 5 https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0086535. 1 Z. Ganszyniec, Tarpeia: The Making of a Myth (Wroclaw 1949). 218 PHOENIX especially the diverse ways in which the ancients used it to explore issues of identity and belonging. The book is divided into three parts (“Tarpeia, Ethnicity and Being Roman in the Republic”; “Tarpeia and the Caesars: From Republic to Empire”; and “Tarpeia from the Outside In: Greek Sources and the Roman Empire”). With the exception of Chapter One, which sketches out the theme of the treasonable woman in myth in general, each chapter concentrates on the portrayal of Tarpeia in a specific source or context. Welch covers Fabius Pictor (Chapter...