It was called Favorinos of Arles. It was a Gallic hellenised born in the first century of our era, celebrated at Athens and at Rome. He became the friend of Plutarch, and was close, a time of the emperor Hadrian, who deported them to the island of Chios to 132 for reasons unknown. He was a philosopher, rhetorician, obviously very star, but despite a nickname meaning, " The Hermaphrodite of Arles ", he slept in relative oblivion until a papyrus wakes up... it has just been translated from the Greek by Fabien Vallos in a small house dedicated to the avant-garde (Éditions Mix., 96 p...

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