Two women in the congregation at Philippi, named in Philippians 4:2 because they were in conflict with each other. ⚠ That is genuinely all that is known about them, and the little that IS known is worth stating carefully. Both names are Greek and both are unambiguously women's. Paul says they 'contended alongside' him in the good news (v3) — synēthlēsan, an athletic word for competing at someone's side — so they were co-workers, not bystanders. And he addresses their quarrel from prison, naming both parties, in a letter he expected to be read aloud to the whole congregation. He does not say which of them is right. He asks a third person to help them. Later readers have found the passage awkward enough to speculate that the names are symbolic or that the pair are factions rather than people; there is no evidence for either.