Teuti The Pirate - Cats In Hats Series

Michele Avanti

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Teuti The Pirate - Cats In Hats Series Mixed Media

Michele Avanti

Roseburg, OR

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Teuti The Pirate - Cats In Hats Series

Artist

Michele Avanti

Medium

Mixed Media - Mixed Media

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Teuti the Pirate - Cat In Hats Series - a mixed media portrait by Michele Avanti

This painting was a gift commission from one of my clients for her friend who had just lost her darling kitty. The kitty named Teuti had only one eye and as soon as I saw the picture, I knew she should be a pirate. After I painted it, I discovered that indeed the lady who owned this darling named her after a famous ancient queen who protected pirates and lived by the rule of piracy! Teuti's owner did tweak the queen's name a little but I have included some of her story below for you.

As we often see, fact is more amazing than fiction, this synchronicity surprised me since I had never met either the cat or her owner.

I hope you enjoy this painting and may every person who loves a different life form find joy in their world and peace when they leave us.

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Queen Teuta

After the death of her husband Agron, (250 -230 BC) the former king of the Ardiaei, she inherited the Ardiaean kingdom, which included much of Illyria proper, though its exact extent remains unknown, and she acted as regent for her young stepson Pinnes with the royal seat in Rhizon (in the Gulf of Kotor, modern Montenegro). According to Polybius, she ruled "by women's reasoning". Teuta started to address the neighbouring states malevolently, supporting the piratical raids of her subjects.

Kingdom of Illyria during Teuta's rule
Illyrians soon captured and later fortified Dyrrachium (modern-day Durrs, Albania) and Phoenice (which was soon liberated with a truce and a fee). While her ships were off the coast of Onchesmos, they intercepted and plundered some Roman merchant vessels. Teuta's forces extended their operations further southward into the Ionian Sea, defeating the combined Achaean and Aetolian fleet in the battle of Paxos and capturing the island of Corcyra, which put them in position to breach the important trade routes between the mainland of Greece and the Greek cities in Italy.
Because the Roman Republic felt threatened by the opposing side of the Adriatic in the very vicinity of its territories (where most of the raids occurred),[8] the senate was compelled to dispatch two ambassadors to the city of Scodra to solicit reparations and demand an end to all pirate expeditions. Queen Teuta told the ambassadors that according to the law of the Illyrians, piracy was a lawful trade and that her government had no right to interfere with this as a private enterprise. She also implied that "it was never the custom of royalty to prevent the advantage of its subjects they could get from the sea"