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

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”.1