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PIETAS , in See also:

Roman See also:mythology, the personification of the sense of See also:duty towards See also:God and See also:man and the fatherland. According to a well-known See also:story, a See also:young woman in humble circumstances, whose See also:father (or See also:mother) was lying in See also:prison under See also:sentence of See also:death, without See also:food, managed to gain admittance, and fed her See also:parent with See also:milk from her See also:breast. To commemorate her filial See also:affection a See also:temple was dedicated (181 B.C.) by Manius Acilius See also:Glabrio to Pietas in the See also:Forum Holitorium at See also:Rome, on the spot where the young woman had formerly lived. The temple was probably originally vowed by the See also:elder Glabrio out of gratitude for the pietas shown duringthe engagement by his son, who may have saved his See also:life, as the elder See also:Africanus that of his father at the See also:battle of Ticinus (See also:Livy xxi. 46); the See also:legend of the young woman (borrowed from the See also:Greek story of Mycon and Pero, Val. Max. v. 4, See also:ext. 1) was then connected with the temple by the See also:identification of its site with that of the prison. There was another temple of Pietas near the See also:Circus See also:Flaminius, which is connected by Amatucci (Rivista di storia antica, 1903) with the story of the pietas of C. Flaminius (Val. Max. v. 4, 5), and regarded by him as the real seat of the cult of the goddess, the Pietas of the See also:sanctuary dedicated by Glabrio being a Greek goddess.

Pietas is represented on coins as a matron throwing See also:

incense on an See also:altar, her attribute being a See also:stork. Typical examples of " piety " are See also:Aeneas and See also:Antoninus See also:Pius, who founded See also:games called Eusebeia at See also:Puteoli in See also:honour of See also:Hadrian. See Val. Max. v. 4, 7; See also:Pliny, Nat. hilt. vii. 121; Livy xl. 34; See also:Festus, s.v.; G. Wissowa, See also:Religion and Kultus der Romer (1902); F. Kuntze, " See also:Die Legende von der guten Tochter," in Jahrbucher f2Zr das hlassische Altertum (1904), xiii. 280.

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