Abstract

Cases of sexual reassignment in Greco-Roman Antiquity, namely a pubertal female-to-male gender transformation, are described in the “paradoxical” literature. Textual evidence concerning a case of androgynism stored up by Phlegon of Tralles as an odd story of gender transformation during marriage is provided in the present study. Μedical interpretation of this case presents a contemporary differential diagnosis of heterosexual puberty in pseudohermaphrodites characterized by genital ambiguity.

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