Agnodice (born ca. 300 BC) is credited with practicing medicine in ancient Greece, at a time when women were legally barred from that occupation. Some question the likelihood that she was an historical figure. Little is known about her life, other than...

Agnodice was the first Greek woman licensed to practice medicine in ancient Athens. According to Hyginus, a Latin author of the A.D. first century, Agnodice was a Greek sage who lived five hundred years earlier in the republic of Athens, then a...

Third century A.D. Greek female physician who disguised herself as a man to practice medicine, an occupation prohibited to women. According to legend, Agnodice once attempted to assist a woman crying out in the pain of childbirth. Thinking Agnodice was...

Agnodice in Greek legend was a virgin of Athens who disguised herself as a man in order to learn medicine from Herophilos. She learned to be a midwife from Herophilos and began to practice as such. She always revealed her femininity to her patients, but...