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Reading sex in Amores 1.4 and 1.5: repetition, coupling, and Ovidian erotics (2024)
Book Chapter
Ingleheart, J. (2024). Reading sex in Amores 1.4 and 1.5: repetition, coupling, and Ovidian erotics. In T. Franklinos, & J. Ingleheart (Eds.), Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy (87-105). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198908111.003.0005

The practice of reading two elegies closely against each other has proved illuminating for the study of Ovid’s Amores. Often there are clear verbal links between paired elegies. Such pairs provide an implied narrative and dramatic sequence; they allo... Read More about Reading sex in Amores 1.4 and 1.5: repetition, coupling, and Ovidian erotics.

Translation and the homosexual canon: Thomas Cannon’s 1749 ‘Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d’ (2024)
Journal Article
Ingleheart, J. (2024). Translation and the homosexual canon: Thomas Cannon’s 1749 ‘Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d’. Classical Receptions Journal, 16(3), 254-272. https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clad032

This paper analyses the fragmentary apologia for pederasty by Thomas Cannon. Published in pamphlet form in 1749, it was suppressed and prosecuted, and lost to history until its recent recovery. The recovery of the text is only partial, as it was pres... Read More about Translation and the homosexual canon: Thomas Cannon’s 1749 ‘Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d’.

The Ovidian Bedroom (Ars amatoria 2.703–34): The Place of Sex in Ovidian Erotic Elegy and Erotodidactic Verse (2021)
Journal Article
Ingleheart, J. (2021). The Ovidian Bedroom (Ars amatoria 2.703–34): The Place of Sex in Ovidian Erotic Elegy and Erotodidactic Verse. TAPA, 151(2), 295-333. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2021.0012

This article constitutes a close reading of the sex scene that closes Ovid, Ars amatoria 2, and an analysis of its contribution to Ovidian first-person erotic elegiac poetry. Lines 703–34 are read comparatively alongside parallel passages, including... Read More about The Ovidian Bedroom (Ars amatoria 2.703–34): The Place of Sex in Ovidian Erotic Elegy and Erotodidactic Verse.

Vates Lesbia: images of Sappho in the poetry of Ovid. (2019)
Book Chapter
Ingleheart, J. (2019). Vates Lesbia: images of Sappho in the poetry of Ovid. In S. Harrison, & T. Thorsen (Eds.), Roman Receptions of Sappho (205-225). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829430.001.0001

This chapter argues that the representation of Sappho the poet appears as a coherent portrait in the poetry of Ovid, and that this portrait closely resembles that of Ovid himself. This is so even when Heroides 15, also known as Epistula Sapphus, wher... Read More about Vates Lesbia: images of Sappho in the poetry of Ovid..

‘Greek’ love at Rome: Propertius 1.20 and the reception of Hellenistic verse (2015)
Journal Article
Ingleheart, J. (2015). ‘Greek’ love at Rome: Propertius 1.20 and the reception of Hellenistic verse. Eugesta, 5, 124-153

This paper analyses the homoerotic aspect of Propertius 1.20 and its presentation of the myth of Hylas, the lost beloved of Hercules. It argues that Propertius reacts to the portrait of ‘Greek love’ that is found in the two surviving lengthy versions... Read More about ‘Greek’ love at Rome: Propertius 1.20 and the reception of Hellenistic verse.

Romosexuality: Rome, Homosexuality, and Reception (2015)
Book Chapter
Ingleheart, J. (2015). Romosexuality: Rome, Homosexuality, and Reception. In J. Ingleheart (Ed.), Ancient Rome and the construction of modern homosexual identities (1-35). Oxford University Press

The ancient Romans (and Greeks) had very different ways of conceptualizing and talking about sexual desire and behaviour from those that are familiar in the modern West; most relevantly for the purposes of this volume, they did not universally catego... Read More about Romosexuality: Rome, Homosexuality, and Reception.

Putting the Roman Back into Romance: The Subversive Case of the Anonymous Teleny (2015)
Book Chapter
Ingleheart, J. (2015). Putting the Roman Back into Romance: The Subversive Case of the Anonymous Teleny. In J. Ingleheart (Ed.), Ancient Rome and the construction of modern homosexual identities (144-160). Oxford University Press

The Introduction to this volume outlines the frequent demonization of Roman homosexuality as lewd and basely sensual in tandem with the valorization of ‘Greek love’ as noble and sexless in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the period i... Read More about Putting the Roman Back into Romance: The Subversive Case of the Anonymous Teleny.

The Invention of (Thracian) Homosexuality: The Ovidian Orpheus in the English Renaissance (2015)
Book Chapter
Ingleheart, J. (2015). The Invention of (Thracian) Homosexuality: The Ovidian Orpheus in the English Renaissance. In J. Ingleheart (Ed.), Ancient Rome and the construction of modern homosexual identities (56-73). Oxford University Press

The Ovidian Orpheus, who, after the death of his wife, Eurydice, rejects women, turns to the love of boys, and teaches his fellow Thracians to do the same is an exceptional and problematic figure, not only because his exclusive gender-based sexual ta... Read More about The Invention of (Thracian) Homosexuality: The Ovidian Orpheus in the English Renaissance.

Exegi monumentum: exile, death, immortality, and monumentality in Ovid, Tristia 3.3 (2015)
Journal Article
Ingleheart, J. (2015). Exegi monumentum: exile, death, immortality, and monumentality in Ovid, Tristia 3.3. Classical Quarterly, 65(1), 286-300. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000983881400072x

Tristia 3.3 purports to be a ‘death-bed’ letter addressed by the sick poet to his wife in Rome (3.3.1–4), in which Ovid, banished from Rome on Augustus' orders, foresees his burial in Tomi as the ultimate form of exilic displacement (3.3.29–32). In o... Read More about Exegi monumentum: exile, death, immortality, and monumentality in Ovid, Tristia 3.3.

Play on the proper names of individuals in the Catullan corpus: wordplay, the iambic tradition, and the late Republican culture of public abuse (2014)
Journal Article
Ingleheart, J. (2014). Play on the proper names of individuals in the Catullan corpus: wordplay, the iambic tradition, and the late Republican culture of public abuse. The Journal of Roman Studies, 104, 51-72. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435814000069

The paper explores the significance of names and naming in Catullus. Catullus’ use of proper names, and in particular his play on the connotations of the names of individuals who are attacked within his poems, has not been fully explored to date, and... Read More about Play on the proper names of individuals in the Catullan corpus: wordplay, the iambic tradition, and the late Republican culture of public abuse.

Responding to Ovid’s Pygmalion episode and receptions of same-sex love in Classical antiquity: art, homosexuality, and the Curatorship of Classical culture in E. M. Forster’s ‘The Classical Annex’ (2014)
Journal Article
Ingleheart, J. (2015). Responding to Ovid’s Pygmalion episode and receptions of same-sex love in Classical antiquity: art, homosexuality, and the Curatorship of Classical culture in E. M. Forster’s ‘The Classical Annex’. Classical Receptions Journal, 7(2), 141-158. https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clt017

Forster’s posthumously published short story about a Roman statue which comes to life in a museum can be read as an appropriation of the myth of Pygmalion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (10.243–97), the most famous example of a tale in which a statue become... Read More about Responding to Ovid’s Pygmalion episode and receptions of same-sex love in Classical antiquity: art, homosexuality, and the Curatorship of Classical culture in E. M. Forster’s ‘The Classical Annex’.