Stephanie McCarter

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Classics professor, writer, and translator (of Horace, Ovid, and Catullus, with more Ovid on the way). she/her stephaniemccarter.com

A book photo: the Poems of Catullus, A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text, edited by Stephanie McCarter.
Book covers of translations of Horace’s Odes by David Mulroy, David Slavitt, David Ferry, and David West.
Building on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, with leafless trees and daffodils in the foreground. The sun is bright and clear.
A hand holding up the book Winter Solstice, by Nina MacLaughlin.
A black cat propped behind a bunch of paperback copies of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, translated by Stephanie McCarter.
From The New Stateman's "Books of the Year 2023," Emily Wilson writes: "The best translation of a work of ancient literature that I read this year was Stephanie McCarter’s marvellous new translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in fresh, readable, vivid iambic pentameter (Penguin Classics). McCarter captures Ovid’s wit and cleverness, making us laugh at the escapades of abusive, lust-crazed, arrogant gods and hapless, also lust-crazed and arrogant mortals. But she also brilliantly evokes Ovid’s more serious sides, including his attentiveness to power and the magical vivacity of the natural world. Her wonderful handling of metrical poetic form is a fitting match for Ovid’s artful, fluent Latin verse." She goes on also to recommend Barbara Kingsolver's "Demon Copperhead."
A screenshot in which Ann Patchett holds up Ovid’s Metamorphoses, translated by Stephanie McCarter. She is in her bookstore, Parnassus Books, with a wall of bookshelves behind her.
Opening lines of the Ars Amatoria from a 9th c. manuscript (Bodleian Library MS. Auct. F. 4. 32).
Three side-by-side images, one a headshot of Emily Wilson (with the Midtown Scholar Bookstore logo in the left bottom corner), in the middle an image of the cover of Wilson's Iliad translation, and on the right a headshot of Stephanie McCarter.
A rattlesnake crawling across a rock driveway.
Woman in a green shirt wearing a green earring in the shape of a book, with "Ovid's Metamorphoses" written on the cover.
An 8-week old kitten with black fur cautiously standing in the open door of a carrying crate, with a bowl of food in front of it.