BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 181 and Italian), but because—with the exception of the “mask” of the “furious mother”— the similarity between dogs and women in ancient Greece is not confined to qualities attributed to female dogs (bitches) as such. Rather, it is dogs as a class that are culturally gendered as feminine, in structural opposition to the “masculinity” of wild beasts such as the wolf (142–153). (One might compare the modern English construction of cats as “feminine” as opposed to the “masculine” dog.) This makes perfect sense, yet “bitch” keeps intruding, starting with the dust jacket, which asserts, bafflingly, that in ancient Greece “the word bitch” was “exclusively figured as female.” In the book itself, “she-dog” and “bitch” sometimes appear on the same page in a way that seems arbitrary (e.g., 125). And what are we to make of “bitchiness” and “bitchy” on 153? The word and its cognates would have been better avoided entirely. Such quibbles aside, Shameless not only translates but supersedes the Italian original. It has been significantly updated and revised, and also sports a substantial new Appendix. This explains the project’s genesis and methodology and provides a valuable introduction to the field of animal studies, with a useful survey of the relevant scholarly literature (including the decade subsequent to the Italian edition). Much of this is introductory in a methodological sense, and as such will be of great interest to classicists (and others) who may be entering this burgeoning subfield for the first time. I wish, in fact, that Franco had used this material to create a new introduction to the book, relegating just the survey of literature to the Appendix. That would have been a more effective way to invite her readers into the world of animal studies and locate this particular project in its larger intellectual framework. The English edition does, however, have a new Preface. Here Franco explains that she has eschewed the “British and American” practice of “setting out one’s thesis statements at the head of the work,” in favor of the allegedly Italian practice of presenting one’s hypothesis as a “riddle,” making the path to the conclusion “both more enjoyable and more informative” (vii–viii). Disoriented readers are therefore advised to start with the Conclusion. But this is completely unnecessary, even for a died-in-the-wool AngloAmerican like myself. The argument is perfectly clear from the outset (even in the Italian edition), and the structure of the book will pose no obstacle to Anglophone readers. I very much hope that no reader is deterred by the oddly defensive tone of this Preface. Shameless is an exceptional book that should be read not only by students of gender and/or animal studies, but by anyone with a scholarly interest in ancient Greek cultural history or literature. The University of California Press is to be applauded for making this remarkable and ground-breaking work available to an Anglophone audience. University of Washington Ruby Blondell Death to Tyrants! Ancient Greek Democracy and the Struggle against Tyranny. By David A. Teegarden. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2014. Pp. xiv, 261. In this study, David Teegarden examines the ancient Greek legislation on tyrannicide . Beginning with the observation that the number of democracies increased during the classical and early hellenistic periods, he concludes that pro-democratic agents had developed effective methods to sustain local democratic regimes over time and identifies tyrant-killing legislation as one of their core measures. By encouraging bold individuals 182 PHOENIX to kill (potential) tyrants and by convincing others that such actions were acceptable, the laws and decrees against tyrants facilitated mobilization in the face of anti-democratic threats. To verify these assumptions, Teegarden analyzes six cases: tyrant-killing laws from Athens, Eretria, and Ilion, the Anti-Tyranny Dossier from Eresos and the Philites Stele from Erythrai. Unquestionably, an up-to-date study of tyrant-killing legislation was necessary. The last contribution to this subject by Hans Friedel was published in 19371 and two relevant inscriptions have been discovered since then. Moreover, while Friedel locates the tyrantkilling laws within the broader context of anti-tyranny discourses in ancient Greece, Teegarden recreates the historical and...