Pietas

In Roman mythology, Pietas was the goddess of duty towards one's state, gods and family.

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Pietas was also one of the Roman virtues, along with gravitas and dignitas.

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Pietas incorporated three main ideas: service to the State, honoring the father, and protecting the son.

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Roman mythology: Roman mythology can be considered as two parts. One part, largely later and literary, consists of whole-cloth borrowings from Greek mythology. The other, largely early and cultic, functioned in very different ways from its Greek counterpart....

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