Sarah is the absolute best! This truly made my day.

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’ve been immersed in Theodosian Code since May, but awoke to find Prof. @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social ’s new Catullus translation. It’s amazing to see a person you admired as an undergraduate at UVA now killing it as a classicist & translator. Amo et Amo. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667356...

It’s nice to have these in my hands! Publication day is Tuesday.

What's worse, I found this letter by filtering by "⭐️ First English Translations," suggesting (with pride!) that this letter had never been translated into English before. But it has! By J.R.C. Martyn, "Letters of Gregory the Great" (2004)! presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id...

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The new project mapping 7,000+ ancient letters is impressive: romanletters.org . The database & geolocation (although noting Pleiades rather than just AWMC would be nice) are great. But I absolutely cannot get over use of AI—however transparent—for translation. 🚨 Value human translators 🚨

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

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Attention, Greek and Latin translators! Nominations are open for the Society for Classical Studies' Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding Literary Translation. For information about eligibility and for nomination instructions, click the link. And please share! classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

NVR's winter issue is available! Featuring @katiedozier.bsky.social, @janezwart.bsky.social, @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social, @sethwieck.bsky.social, @kdawn999.bsky.social, @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social, @poetjs.bsky.social, and more!

I'm not on here much, but I am so excited to share the cover of my forthcoming Catullus translation, featuring an amazing painting by Eduardo Mata Icasa (called "Nature of Emptiness"). As soon as I saw the painting, I knew no other work of art could more perfectly capture how I think about Catullus.

Attention, classics and translation people! Scott McGill and I are organizing a panel for SCS 2027 called "The Indirect Method: Translations as Sources." Please read, share, and/or submit! www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

A must-read about the cuts to the NEH and their impact on the study of the ancient world. open.substack.com/pub/pastsimp...

Pasts Imperfect (4.17.25)

Saving, Celebrating, and Defending the work and the workers behind the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)

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I received the amazing news this morning that I have been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. I am still in disbelief, since it felt like even applying was an act of unwarranted audacity. (1/3) #guggfellows2025

KEY PASSAGES TALK: TRANSLATING OVID’S METAMORPHOSES Join us for a talk by Stephanie McCarter about her tactics for interpreting and rendering Ovid’s themes of sexual violence, gender, sexuality, and the body into English verse. 4/17, 4 PM | 6020 HSSB Learn more: bit.ly/McCarter-IHC

Key Passages Talk: Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses - Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB

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...

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Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research

I absolutely loved my visit to Pomona College the past couple of days, and I am so happy to see this article. In one of these quotes I am myself quoting Patricia Salzman-Mitchell’s wonderful book “A Web of Fantasies.” I am really indebted to her formulation of the female gaze in Ovid.

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · last yr.

Humanities studio presents Stephanie McCarter on female agency in the classics - The Student Life tsl.news/ovid-transla...

Zoom in on Monday, March 31 if you'd like to hear me discuss translating Latin poetry (including Horace, Ovid, and Catullus)!

I am so impressed by my Catullus students' creative translations this semester--and am wowed by how many worked in formal meter. A quick glance tells me there's part of Catullus 63 in the form of a sestina, part of 64 in alexandrines, and both Catullus 16 and 50 in iambic pentameter.

I'm thrilled this news is out! The Committee for the Translations of Classical Authors hopes this award will demonstrate that translation matters (and should count!) in Classics. Inaugural judges are Sarah Ruden, Deborah Roberts, and Adrienne Rose. Please share! classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

The SCS 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 that translate primary texts in Ancient Greek or Latin. Letters of nomination may be submitted by anyone! classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

It was lovely to do this interview with the wonderful Parnassus Books about *Women in Power.* If you find yourself in Nashville anytime soon, definitely visit Parnassus!

Reading the Classics Against the Grain: An Interview with Stephanie McCarter

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 …

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It's great to have "Women in Power" featured in Publishers Weekly. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Anthology Reframes the Story of Women and Power in Antiquity

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...

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This was such a group effort, with a beautiful translation of Ovid's Heroides 7 by @ezd.bsky.social and fabulous contributions by my brilliant former student Paige Graf and my generous colleagues Chris McDonough and Daniel Holmes.

Erika ZD@ezd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Publication Day! Ovid's Dido, a joy to do! @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social, editor & translator is extraordinary! Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in new and existing translations. Find it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...

Publication Day! Ovid's Dido, a joy to do! @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social, editor & translator is extraordinary! Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in new and existing translations. Find it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...

Women in Power: 9780143136361 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

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....

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Publication day! I assembled my favorite Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in both new and existing translations. You can find it (and see the TOC) here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...

This book has become one of my favorites. It’s a beautiful illustration of how books (and the libraries and databanks that house them!) bind us to each other through time—and translation is a key part of that process. Here’s a favorite passage:

Carlos Noreña@carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 2y ago

Finished up CLOUD CUCKOO LAND over the weekend. I initially dismissed it because of some mixed reviews, but that was a mistake. This is a *staggeringly* good book: enthralling, jaw-droppingly imaginative, beautifully woven. PS: Doerr should have been included in that NYTimes Top 100 Books list!

✨Special Episode – Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Professor Stephanie McCarter✨ Join us as we interview Professor Stephanie McCarter, the author of a ground-breaking new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. partialhistorians.com/2024/06/06/s...

Special Episode - Ovid's Metamorphoses with Professor Stephanie McCarter - The Partial Historians

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

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I love my new book cover, a scratchboard illustration by Greek-American artist Evangelia Philippidis, depicting Amanirenas (left, in red), Dido (center, in blue, holding a calla lily), and Boudicca (right, in green, holding a sword), with Aristophanes' Assemblywomen in background. Out in September!

Calling all Ovidians! Don't forget that the new journal Ovidius is accepting submissions on any aspect of Ovid and the afterlives of his work, including academic articles, translations, and original creative works! ovidiusjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...

I still have my slide to prove it!

Gregory Hays@aristofontes.bsky.social · 2y ago

This in turn reminds me of @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social's observation on the ratio of English versions of Horace's Odes by men named David to versions by women, which is 4:1.

Happy to be giving the Morse Lecture this week at the University of Bristol's Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition. In-person and online! www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...