This paper, starting from a comparison between the passage of Plato's "Theaetetus" (149c-d) in which Socrates describes the characteristics of the midwifes job and Soranus Gynecology, analyzes the evolution of this professional profile in Soranus' treatise, in relation to her medical competences and to the power assigned to the speech.
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