Tag: Disorders of sexual development

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

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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 …

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

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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” …