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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

Metamorphoses

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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The Poems of Catullus

From an award-winning translator, a new dual-language translation of poems by Catullus, the Roman poet and punk, the lover and hater, the hedonist and wretch, famous for his contradictions, on friendship, sympathy, love and sex, and notably, diatribes against enemies.

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