Before revision: Problems with accepting Agnodice as historical include questions over her date, and the implausibility of Hyginus' claim that there were no "obstetrices" in Athens before Agnodice, when literary and epigraphic evidence shows that midwives were known.
After revision: Problems with accepting Agnodice as historical include questions over her date, and the implausibility of Hyginus' claim that there were no in Athens before Agnodice, when literary and epigraphic evidence shows that midwives were known.