About Sewanee, a new translation of Ovid, and the importance of seizing the day.

Stephanie McCarter is a Professor of Classical Languages at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She received a B.A. in Classics and English from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Virginia. Since her arrival at Sewanee in 2008, she has taught a wide variety of Greek, Latin, humanities, and classical civilization courses.

Stephanie’s academic research primarily involves Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire. She is the author of two books (one translation, one monograph) on the poet Horace, and her translation of Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" will be published, as a part of the Penguin Classics series, in October of 2022. The description of the book on the Penguin website reads: "The first female translator of the epic into English 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."

Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney

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