Phila bint Antipater of Macedonia I

• Preferred Name: Phila bint Antipater of Macedonia I^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Death: 287 BC in Cassandreia, Néa Potídhaia, Moudania, Chalkidiki, Greece at LATI: N0.1935 LONG: E3.3225 with note:
  
• It+is+said+that+her+father,+Antipater,+and+her+husbands+appreciated+and+took+council+in++: with note: Description: Phila’s clever thinking, sound judgment, and good intentions. She was a crusader against oppression and injustice, providing dowries for poor women from her own expenses. Project Continua, Women Who Persist: Phila
  
• FSID: 94RF-8B7
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Phila (Greek: Φίλα; died 287 BC), daughter of Antipater, the regent of Macedonia, is celebrated by the ancient sources as one of the noblest and most virtuous women of the age in which she lived. Her abilities and judgment were so conspicuous even at an early age, that her father, Antipater, often consulted her in regard to political affairs.
  According to Antonius Diogenes, she was married to Balacrus (probably the satrap of Cappadocia of that name) as early as 332 BC. In 322 BC, her father gave her in marriage to Craterus as a reward for his assistance to Antipater in the Lamian War. After the death of Craterus a year later, she was again married to the young Demetrius Poliorcetes, the son of Antigonus.
  
  The date of her marriage is assumed to have taken place between 319 BC and 315, since the remains of her late husband were consigned to her care by Ariston, the friend of Eumenes in 315 BC. Despite the large difference in age, Phila appears to have had great influence over her youthful husband, who treated her with the utmost respect and consideration, and towards whom she had great affection in spite of his numerous amours and subsequent marriages. During the many vicissitudes of fortune which Demetrius experienced, Phila seems to have resided principally in Cyprus from whence she sent letters and costly presents to her husband during the siege of Rhodes.
  
  After the Battle of Ipsus, she joined Demetrius, who sent her to her brother Cassander in Macedonia, to endeavour to effect a reconciliation and treaty between him and Demetrius. She appears to have again returned to Cyprus, where, in 295 BC, she was besieged in Salamis by the king of Egypt Ptolemy I, and ultimately compelled to surrender, but was treated by him in the most honourable manner and sent together with her children in safety to Macedonia. Here she now shared the fortunes of her husband, and contributed to efforts to secure the loyalty of the Macedonian people. But when, in 287 BC, a sudden revolution once more precipitated Demetrius from the throne, Phila, unable to bear this unexpected reversal of fortunes and despairing of the future, took her own life at Cassandreia.
  
  Marriages and children
  Her first husband was Balakros (ca. 332 BC)
  Her second husband was Craterus (322 BC), with whom she had a son:
  . Craterus (320-250)
  Her last marriage was to Demetrius I of Macedon with whom she had two children:
  . Stratonice of Syria
  . Antigonus II Gonatas
  
  Phila exerted her influence in the cause of peace, in protecting the oppressed, and in attempting to calm the violent passions of those who surrounded her. She left two children by Demetrius; Antigonus, surnamed Gonatas, who became king of Macedonia; and a daughter, Stratonice, married first to Seleucus I Nicator, and afterwards to his son Antiochus I Soter. She also had a son by Craterus, who bore his father's name. The Athenians, in order to pay their court to Demetrius, consecrated a temple to Phila, under the name of Aphrodite.
  
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• m. ABT 323 BC

• m. ABT 332 BC

1. Stratonice Antigonid of Macedon I, b. 320 BC in of, Antioch, Syrian Arab Republic     d. 268 BC in Macedonia
2. Antigonas II Gonatas , King of Macedonia, b. 320 BC in Thessaly, Macedonia     d. 239 BC in Pella, Macedonia

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2. Title: Project Continua, Women Who Persist: Phila
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   Note: Phila by Stephanie Bedus Phila of Macedonia (c. 340 BCE–287 BCE) was born to Antipater, the regent of Macedonia, during the absence of Alexander, who ruled until his death in 319 BCE. She was married three times, widowed twice, and produced four children; a son to each of her husbands and one daughter to her final husband. Her first two marriages, to Balacrus and then to Craterus, were political unions set up by her father; each marriage ended with the death of her husband in battle. Her final and longest marriage, and her father’s most strategic political move, was to Demetrius, son of Antigonus, who became King of Macedonia in 306 BCE, succeeding Phila’s brother Cassander. It is said that her father, Antipater, and her husbands appreciated and took council in Phila’s clever thinking, sound judgment, and good intentions. She was a crusader against oppression and injustice, providing dowries for poor women from her own expenses. Demetrius resented his marriage to an older woman who already had two children from previous marriages, and is largely understood to have preferred the company of one of his other wives, a courtesan named Lamia; polygamy being an accepted practice of Macedonian society. Demetrius instead used Phila as an intermediary to repair his tarnished relationship between her powerful brothers Cassander and Pleistarchus. Phila, while succeeding in easing the familial tension, could not repair the alienation and lack of support that Demetrius had gathered from the people of Macedonia at large, and in 287 BCE he fell from power and was exiled by the more popular Pyrrhus. Phila decided to drink poison rather than be exiled from Macedonia. The treatment that Phila received from her subjects became an example for the way in which royal women would be treated in the coming Hellenistic periods. Hers was a public life, and she was also the first-known royal woman who experienced a cult following association with Aphrodite while alive; she was also the first Macedonian royal woman to be allotted a title as such. [1] Ian Plant, “Phila,” Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries (1803) Chawton House Library Series: Women’s Memoirs, ed. Gina Luria Walker, Memoirs of Women Writers Part II (Pickering & Chatto: London, 2013), vol. 10, 57-59, editorial notes, 562-63. [2] Plant, “Phila,” vol. 10, 57-59, editorial notes, 562-63. [3] Elizabeth Donnelly Carney, Women and Monarchy in Macedonia (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman Publishing Division, 2000), 165-169. [4] Mary Hays, Female Biography; or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women of all Ages and Countries (6 volumes) (London: R. Phillips, 1803). [5] Hays, Female Biography, 56. [6] Carney, Women and Monarchy in Macedonia, 166-167. [7] Plant, “Phila,” vol. 10, p.57, editorial notes 13-14; and Hays, Female Biography, 57. [8] Sharon L. James, Sheila Dillon, A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (John Wiley & Sons, 2012), 312-314. [9] James, A Companion to Women in the Ancient World, 312. Bibliography Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly. Women and Monarchy in Macedonia. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Hays, Mary. Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women of all Ages and Countries (6 volumes). London: R. Phillips, 1803. James, Sharon L. & Dillon, Sheila. A Companion to Women in the Ancient World. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell: 2012. Plant, Ian. “Aretaphila.” Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries. 1803. Chawton House Library Series: Women’s Memoirs, ed. Gina Luria Walker, Memoirs of Women Writers Part II. Pickering & Chatto: London, 2013. vol. 5, 198-203, editorial notes, 435-36. Resources: Brooklyn Museum Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Phile http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/phile.php Tags: Ancient, Europe, Patriots, Philanthropists
   
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   Note: Phila (Greek: Φίλα; died 287 BC), daughter of Antipater, the regent of Macedonia, is celebrated by the ancient sources as one of the noblest and most virtuous women of the age in which she lived. Her abilities and judgment were so conspicuous even at an early age, that her father, Antipater, often consulted her in regard to political affairs. Biography According to Antonius Diogenes, she was married to Balacrus (probably the satrap of Cappadocia of that name) as early as 332 BC. In 322 BC, her father gave her in marriage to Craterus as a reward for his assistance to Antipater in the Lamian War. After the death of Craterus a year later, she was again married to the young Demetrius Poliorcetes, the son of Antigonus. The date of her marriage is assumed to have taken place between 319 BC and 315, since the remains of her late husband were consigned to her care by Ariston, the friend of Eumenes in 315 BC. Despite the large difference in age, Phila appears to have had great influence over her youthful husband, who treated her with the utmost respect and consideration, and towards whom she had great affection in spite of his numerous amours and subsequent marriages. During the many vicissitudes of fortune which Demetrius experienced, Phila seems to have resided principally in Cyprus from whence she sent letters and costly presents to her husband during the siege of Rhodes. After the Battle of Ipsus, she joined Demetrius, who sent her to her brother Cassander in Macedonia, to endeavour to effect a reconciliation and treaty between him and Demetrius. She appears to have again returned to Cyprus, where, in 295 BC, she was besieged in Salamis by the king of Egypt Ptolemy I, and ultimately compelled to surrender, but was treated by him in the most honourable manner and sent together with her children in safety to Macedonia. Here she now shared the fortunes of her husband, and contributed to efforts to secure the loyalty of the Macedonian people. But when, in 287 BC, a sudden revolution once more precipitated Demetrius from the throne, Phila, unable to bear this unexpected reversal of fortunes and despairing of the future, took her own life at Cassandreia. Legacy Phila exerted her influence in the cause of peace, in protecting the oppressed, and in attempting to calm the violent passions of those who surrounded her. She left two children by Demetrius; Antigonus, surnamed Gonatas, who became king of Macedonia; and a daughter, Stratonice, married first to Seleucus I Nicator, and afterwards to his son Antiochus I Soter. She also had a son by Craterus, who bore his father's name. The Athenians, in order to pay their court to Demetrius, consecrated a temple to Phila, under the name of Aphrodite.