Editing Piety (section)

==Classical interpretation==
{{lang|la|Pietas}} in traditional Latin usage expressed a complex, highly valued [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] virtue; a man with {{lang|la|pietas}} respected his responsibilities to gods, country, parents, and kin.<ref>{{multiref2
|1={{citation|author=[[Cicero]]|title=Nature of the Gods|at=I.116}} 
|2={{citation|author=[[Cicero]]|title=On Rhetorical Invention|at=II.66}}
}}</ref> In its strictest sense it was the sort of love a son ought to have for his father. [[Aeneas]]'s consistent [[Epithet#Literature|epithet]] in [[Virgil]] and other Latin authors is {{lang|la|pius}}, a term  which connotes reverence toward the gods and familial dutifulness. At the fall of Troy, Aeneas carries to safety his father, the lame [[Anchises]], and the [[Lares]] and [[Penates]], the statues of the household gods.

In addressing whether children have an obligation to provide support for their parents, [[Thomas Aquinas|Aquinas]] quotes, [[Cicero]], "...piety gives both duty and homage": "duty" referring to service, and "homage" to reverence or honor."<ref>{{cite book|first=Thomas|last=Aquinas|author-link=Thomas Aquinas|title=Summa Theologiae|chapter=Secunda Secundae|at=[https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3101.htm Question 101: Piety]; Article 2}}</ref> [[Filial piety]] is central to Confucian [[role ethics|ethics]];<ref name="Chang">{{cite book|last1=Chang|first1=Wonsuk|last2=Kalmanson|first2=Leah|title=Confucianism in Context: Classic Philosophy and Contemporary Issues, East Asia and Beyond|year=2010|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-3191-8|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_UC1mvUKaU8C&pg=PA68 68]}}</ref> reverence for parents is considered in Chinese ethics the prime virtue and the basis of all right human relations.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://dwillard.org/articles/christ-centered-piety|last=Willard|first=Dallas|chapter=Christ-Centered Piety|title=Where Shall My Wond'ring Soul Begin?: The Landscape of Evangelical Piety and Thought|location=Grand Rapids, Mich.|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.|year=2000|pages=27–36}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=September 2023}}