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Gender Rebels of Ancient Greece and Rome: Transgender People

Ancient History Fangirl

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Catullus and Catullus, a Roman Poet and a Greek Goddess

The priestesses of sybyl transformed themselves, the way atis did, from men into women. After their castration, the gali would abandon their prior masculine identities and live as women. March 20 fourth, called the deis sanguinos, or day of blood, was the date they marked the death of atis. In a frenzy of ecstatic religious music and dance, new initiates would enter into a divine trance,. They were seen as transforming, through this religious ritual, probably by their goddess, into women.

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