This week, ancient historian Jeremy Simmons discusses Rome, India, and his new book on ancient Indian Ocean trade networks. Then, new mosaics may honor two beloved ancient pets, a new book on Aristotl...

This week, classicist and translator Stephanie McCarter discusses the art of translation, adapting myth, and her new book on Catullus. Then, India's Rāmāyana answer to Nolan's Odyssey, archaeologists ...

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About the Award The Society for Classical Studies’ annual Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding Literary Translation honors up to two books each year by SCS members published within the past three ...

Call for Abstracts: The Indirect Method: Translations as SourcesTranslation Panel, annual SCS meeting in Philadelphia, 2027Proposed by: SCS Committee on Translations of Classical AuthorsOrganizers: Sc...

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In this talk, Stephanie McCarter will discuss her recent translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin, 2022). She will first address her tactics for transforming Ovid’s poetic and metrical effects int...

About the Award The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the new annual Award for Outstanding Literary Translation. The award will honor up to two books each year by SCS members publis...

About the Award The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the new annual Award for Outstanding Literary Translation. The award will honor up to two books each year by SCS members publis...

Women In Power is an anthology of ancient sources regarding just that — powerful women. Under the guiding hand of Prof. Stephanie McCarter, recent translator of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, rich, primary …

In 'Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra,' professor and translator Stephanie McCarter asserts that numerous women held political power in antiquity—and that Gree...

Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to Cleopatra A Penguin Classic There is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient women in power....

We interview Professor Stephanie McCarter, the author of a ground-breaking new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Iliad brings the strange and brutal beauty of Homer’s world into the English-speaking now.

Common Wood-Pigeon is a burly pigeon with a low, growling song to match. Adorned mostly in subtle shades of lilac and gray, adults also have flashy white (or tan) neck patches trimmed with green iride...

The University of the South, commonly known as Sewanee, is a private Episcopal liberal arts college in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Most folks in the Classics-sphere will now have heard that Sharon James of UNC Chapel Hill passed away between Christmas and New Year. The reaction has been one of shock and of loss, for an ever-insig...

Call for Abstracts: Translation and Creative Adaptation Translation Panel, annual SCS meeting in Philadelphia, 2025 Proposed by: SCS Committee on Translations of Classical Authors Organizers: Stephani...

An incredible and in-depth conversation with Classical scholar, Stephanie McCarter about Ovid, Horace, greco Roman poetry, the tradition of translation, retelling of myth, and the movements of poetry ...