Triteuta (; 230–219 BC) was an
Illyrian queen and the first wife of the Illyrian king
Agron of the
Ardiaei
The Ardiaei were an Illyrian people who resided in the territory of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Croatia between the Adriatic coast on the south, Konjic on the north, along the Neretva river and its right ...
(r. 250–231 BC), with whom she had a son named
Pinnes.
Sometime before his death (231/230 BC), Agron divorced Triteuta and married
Teuta
Teuta ( Illyrian: ''*Teutana'', 'mistress of the people, queen'; ; ) was the queen regent of the Ardiaei tribe in Illyria, who reigned approximately from 231 BC to 228/227 BC.
Following the death of her spouse Agron in 231 BC, she assumed ...
. Their son, crown prince Pinnes, was placed under the guardianship of step-mother Teuta (the Queen regent) until after the
First Illyrian War (228 BC).
It is believed that, at some point, Teuta abdicated, died, or was removed, and the regency for Pinnes was taken by Demetrius of Pharos.
According to
Dio Chrysostom
Dio Chrysostom (; ''Dion Chrysostomos''), Dio of Prusa or Cocceianus Dio (c. 40 – c. 115 AD), was a Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD. Eighty of his ''Discourses'' (or ''Orations''; ) are ...
,
Demetrius of Pharos
Demetrius of Pharos (also Pharus; ) was a ruler of Pharos involved in the First Illyrian War, after which he ruled a portion of the Illyrian Adriatic coast on behalf of the Romans, as a client king.
Demetrius was a regent ruler to Pinnes, ...
married Triteuta and became regent for Pinnes,
after the war, thus becoming the most powerful of the Illyrian rulers in the 220s BC.
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