Metamorphoses: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ovid
Metamorphoses: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ovid Winner of the 2023 HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARDThe first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie…
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Metamorphoses: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ovid
Winner of the 2023 HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARDThe 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.A Penguin ClassicOvid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective.
For those who are brutalized and traumatized, transformation is often the outward manifestation of their trauma. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both those of us who have it and those of us who do not. A beautiful virgin is caught