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"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. Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war,...
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Penguin classics volume 58
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid is an epic poem comprising over 250 Greek and Roman myths, chronicling the creation of the world to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar. The Metamorphoses is one of the most central texts in Western literature, having influenced authors from Dante to Shakespeare, and inspired acclaimed sculpture and paintings.