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Clive Thompson

I love this description of Envy in Stephanie McCarter‘s wonderful translation of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”

“She does not smile unless she’s witnessed pain“

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The translation is a banger; it foregrounds something that scholars have for centuries mostly danced around, which is that the “Metamorphoses” is basically a massive poem about sexual assault

@clive Boy, yeah. I was reading "Latin Via Ovid" for a class a couple of years ago and that entire Latin reader sure has a lot of sexual assault. I appreciate the desire to get close to an original text, but I would have chosen another textbook.