On the reverse of this coin by Flavia Maximiana Theodora, Pietas bearing holding infant to breast.

In Roman mythology, Pietas was the goddess of duty to one's state, gods and family and a personification of the Roman virtue of pietas. One of the di indigetes, her main temple was a 2nd century BC one in the Forum Holitorium. Image File history File links Bronze-Flavia_Maximiana_Theodora-trier_RIC_65. ... Image File history File links Bronze-Flavia_Maximiana_Theodora-trier_RIC_65. ... Flavia Maximiana Theodora (known as Theodora) was the daughter or step-daughter of Maximian. ... Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. ... Duty is a term loosely applied to any action (or course of action) which is regarded as morally incumbent, apart from personal likes and dislikes or any external compulsion. ... For other uses, see State (disambiguation). ... Look up deity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A family in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including domestic partnership, cohabitation, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the... Pietas, as virtue of the Roman Emperor Herennius Etruscus, celebrated with the instruments of cult, such as patera and lituus. ... The di indigetes (indigenous gods) were a group of Roman gods, goddesses and other beings not adopted from other mythologies (di novensides, newcomer gods in Georg Wissowas terminology). ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 2nd century BC started on January 1, 200 BC and ended on December 31, 101 BC. // Coin of Antiochus IV. Reverse shows Apollo seated on an omphalos. ... The Forum Holitorium was the vegetable market of early ancient Rome, by the Tiber at the foot of the Capitoline and Palatine hills. ...

This goddess was often depicted on the reverses of Roman Imperial coins with women of the imperial family on the obverse, as an appropriate virtue to be attributed to them (eg Flavia Maximiana Theodora, right). The imperial women might even appear in the goddess's guise (eg Livia here and Salonina Matidia here). Flavia Maximiana Theodora (known as Theodora) was the daughter or step-daughter of Maximian. ... Livia Drusilla, after 14 AD called Julia Augusta (Classical Latin: LIVIA•DRVSILLA, later IVLIA•AVGVSTA[1]) (58 BC-AD 29) was the wife of Caesar Augustus and the most powerful woman in the early Roman Empire, acting several times as regent and being Augustus faithful advisor. ... Image File history File links Livia, mother of Tiberius. ... This denarius celebrates Matidia Augusta. ... Image File history File links Matidia_-_denarius_-_RIC_0759. ...