Gender identity disputed in the court of justice: a story of female to male sexual transformation in the hellenistic period, described by Diodorus Siculus

Anastasia K. Armeni, Vasiliki Vasileiou, George Markantes, Christina Damoulari, Angelina Mandrapilia, Fotini A. Kosmopoulou, Varvara Keramisanou, Danai Georgakopoulou, Neoklis A. Georgopoulos

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Cases of sexual reassignment in Greco-Roman antiquity, presenting as a pubertal female-to-male gender transformation, are described in the “classical” literature. Textual evidence concerning a case of androgynism, garnered by Diodorus Siculus, among other similar accounts …

Callo: The first known case of ambiguous genitalia to be surgically repaired in the history of Medicine, described by Diodorus Siculus

Georgios K. Markantes, Efthimios Deligeoroglou, Anastasia K. Armeni, Vasiliki Vasileiou, Christina Damoulari, Angelina Mandrapilia, Fotini Kosmopoulou, Varvara Keramisanou, Danai Georgakopoulou, George Creatsas, Neoklis A. Georgopoulos

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Diodorus Siculus (Diodoros Sikeliotes) was a Greek historian and writer who lived in the 1st century B.C. He is renowned for his universal history, “Bibliotheca Historica” (Historical Library), in which cases of sexual reassignment occurring around his time were included …

When genotype prevails: sexual female-to-male transformation in Classical Antiquity, recorded by Gaius Plinius Secundus and Phlegon

Anastasia K. Armeni, Vasiliki Vasileiou, Neoklis A. Georgopoulos

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Cases of sexual reassignment in classical antiquity, namely a female-to-male gender change occurring after childhood, are described in the literature. Textual evidence concerning these cases of androgynism and their symbolism as well as a comprehensive scholar analysis is provided in the present study …

The male bride: a story of Sexual Female-to-Male Transformation at marriage from the Hellenistic period, recorded by Phlegon of Tralles

Konstantina Barouti, Georgios K. Markantes, Anastasia K. Armeni, Vasiliki Vasileiou, Neoklis A. Georgopoulos

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Phlegon of Tralles was a Greek historian and writer, born in Tralles, a city of Lydia in Asia Minor. He was a freedman of the emperor Hadrian, who lived in the 2nd century AD. Besides his magnum opus, “The Olympiads”, among other writings of which only fragments have survived to date, he also produced a compilation of marvelous and abnormal natural or human phenomena presented as paradoxical stories in his collection called “Book of Marvels” …