Gender Rebels of Ancient Greece and Rome: Transgender People
Ancient History Fangirl
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Transgenter Men in the Ancient World
Some stories of transgendermen transitioning in the ancient world do seem to be magical or possibly religious in nature. Lycinius mucianus has recorded that he personally saw at argos a man named ariscon who had been given the name of arascusa, and had actually married a husband. Flegon tells us of a trans man that he met himself once. In syrian lidocea, there was a woman named itite who underwent a change in form and name even while she was living with her husband. A person who had previously lived as a woman was now a man. And these stories may also reflect the truth of trans men’s lives in the ancient
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