This is a piece of careful scholarship as well as of pietas. |
Later emperors carried it further and in the second century AD empresses such as Sabina were depicted as embodying, for example, pietas. |
This genre bears an obvious resemblance to notions of pietas, which themselves constitute a utopian community situated in a past so idealized that it is almost fictional. |
Pietas has the religious note which the other words lack, loving dutifulness to gods and home and country. |
The soldiers are depicted with great pietas, they're people who find themselves there because they need a job, they're 'armed unemployed people,' as Carlo Cassòla called them. |
The first reason involves pietas, an ancient European, which is to say Roman, virtue that teaches us both reverence and gratitude for those on whose shoulders we stand. |