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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.

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..

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.