quality

Piety

Beliefs & concepts

Reverent duty toward gods, parents, or tradition in classical and later speech. Not devotion as private affection alone, and not prayer as the act.

Roman religion

  • Piety appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid centers pius Aeneas — pietas as duty to gods, kin, and city. Roman piety in that epic, not Qur’anic taqwā under a forced flatten and not a generic devout mood.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Aeneid · Virgil

    Virgil, Aeneid.