The New International Encyclopædia/Phila

PHI′LA. Daughter of Antipater, regent of Macedonia. She was celebrated as one of the noblest women of her time. In B.C. 322 she was married to Craterus. He died in about a year, and Phila was then married to the son of Antigonus, Demetrius, whose varying fortunes she shared. When Demetrius was banished from Macedonia in B.C. 287, Phila killed herself at Cassandrea. She left two children by Demetrius, Antigonus and Stratonice. The son, surnamed Gonatas, became King of Macedonia; Stratonice became the wife of Scleucus and subsequently of his son Antiochus.