Phila of Thebes (Greek: Φίλα) (fl. 300s BCE) was a hetaira in Athens.[1][2] She may have been enslaved at the Siege of Thebes in 335 BC. Originally, she was enslaved to a woman called Nicarete who purchased and trained several women to become courtesans.[1][3] Phila was eventually ransomed for a large sum (possibly 2,000 drachmas) by the famous orator Hyperides, who installed her at his house in Eleusis.[4][5][6]
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extensive use of siege engines, and his use of effective diplomacy and marriage alliances. After defeating the Greek city-states of Athens and Thebes at the...
was Phila daughter of Regent Antipater by whom he had two children: Stratonice of Syria and Antigonus II Gonatas. His second wife was Eurydice of Athens...
unknown wives. His daughters were: Phila, wife of Balacrus, Craterus and Demetrius I of Macedon. Eurydice, wife of Ptolemy I Soter. Her son Meleager would...
^ e: Philip married Philaof Elimeia, the sister of the last independent king of Elimea. Machatas of Elimeia, brother ofPhila, is associated with the...
Poliorcetes, himself the son of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, who then controlled much of Asia. His mother was Phila, the daughter of Antipater, who had controlled...
The following is a list of prostitutes and courtesans of antiquity mentioned by ancient sources. Images of Hermes which stood in a row in the Athenian...
coalition of Greek states led by Thebes and Athens at the battle of Chaeronea. He then forced the Greeks into an hegemonic alliance called the League of Corinth...
Gibbon, E., Milman, H. Hart. (1871). The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire. A new ed., Phila.: J. B. Lippincott & co. Asbridge, Thomas, The...
of the Enipeus to use it as a defence. Meanwhile, Quintus Marcius sent 2,000 men from Phila to seize Heracleum, halfway between Dium and the Vale of Tempe...
Milman, H. Hart. (1871). The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire. A new ed., Phila.: J. B. Lippincott & co. Volume 4, p. 509. Mosshammer (2008)...
against Seleucus II Callinicus. 295 BCE – Phila (daughter of Antipater) was besieged in Salamis, Cyprus by the king of Egypt Ptolemy I, and ultimately compelled...
with her had a daughter named Cynane then wedded Philaof Elimeia, the sister of the Archon Derdas III of Elimiotis Philip then fathered children with two...
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