Outputs (3)

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.