The Unknown Artists of Ravenna

I’ve not always liked my name — one of my first acts on hitting puberty was to rebrand myself from “Theodora” to “Theo”, an innovation I’ve failed to reverse ever since – but I have always liked the story behind it.Why? Because I’m named for a woman who grew up among the bears of the circus, and possibly rose from being a child prostitute and stripper — her exotic act involved geese pecking corn from her, umm, person —…