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Stephanie McCarter

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Stephanie McCarter (translator) is a professor of classical literature at the University of the South in Sewanee. She has published translated work on Horace and has written for The Sewanee Review, Eidolon, Electric Literature, and The Millions.

Books by Stephanie McCarter
The Poems of Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus, Stephanie McCarter
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Women in Power
Stephanie McCarter
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Metamorphoses
Ovid, Stephanie McCarter

Winner of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

“The best translation of a work of ancient literature that I read this year”- Emily Wilson

The first female translator of the epic into English verse in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid’s classic.

A Penguin Classic

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