Pietas

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Pietas

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Pietas (goddess)

In Roman mythology, Pietas was the goddess of duty to one's state, Deity and family and a personification of the Roman virtue of pietas . One of the di indigetes, her main temple was a 2nd century BC one in the Forum Holitorium#Temples....
for the divine personification of this virtue.

Pietas was one of the Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
virtue

Virtue

Virtue is morality excellence. Personal virtues are characteristics Value as promoting individual and collective well-being, and thus Goodness and value theory by definition....
s, along with gravitas

Gravitas

'Gravitas' is a quality of substance or depth of personality.Gravitas is one of the several Roman virtues expected Man to possess, along with pietas , Dignitas , and Justice ....
and dignitas. Pietas is usually translated as "duty" or "devotion," and it simultaneously suggests duty to the gods and duty to family - particularly to the father (which is expanded to duty to the community and duty to the state thanks to the analogy between the family and the state, conventional in the ancient world – see, for example, Plato

Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
's Crito).

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Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
virtue

Virtue

Gravitas

Plato

Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
's hero Aeneas embodies this virtue, and is particularly emblematic of it in book II of the Aeneid

Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin Epic poetry written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Rome....
when he flees burning Troy bearing his father, who carries the household gods, on his back.

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