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Stephanie McCarter, the first female translator of Ovid's classic into English in over sixty years, talks with Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster).

Stephanie McCarter talks to Dr Liz Oakley-Brown, of the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster, about her new tranlation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Penguin Random House , 2023) and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence etc. etc.

T here will be time for Q and A

“The Metamorphoses has it all: sex, death, love, violence, gods, mortals, monsters, nymphs, all the great forces, human and natural. With this vital new translation, Stephanie McCarter has not only updated Ovid’s epic of transformation for the modern ear or era — she’s done something far more powerful. She’s paid rigorous attention to the language of the original and brought to us its ferocity, its sensuality, its beauty, its wit, showing us how we are changed, by time, by violence, by love, by stories, and especially by power. Here is Ovid, in McCarter’s masterful hands, refreshed, renewed, and pulsing with life.” (Nina MacLaughlin, author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung)

Stephanie McCarter is Associate Professor of Classics at Sewanee, University of the South, and author of Horace: Epodes, Odes, and Carmen Saeculare. (University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, 2020).

Dr Liz Oakley-Broown is Senior Lecturer in English Literaturee at the University of Lancaster, and author of Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2006