Explain pietas as it existed in ancient Rome

What will be an ideal response?

Essay responses should include these points:
• The idea of pietas relates to the "dutifulness" of civic obligation mirroring paternalistic structure of the Roman family.
• This idea was supported to the degree of titling the emperor "father of the fatherland" and included a reciprocal relationship wherein citizens were loyal to Rome, paid taxes, and received the benefits of citizenship and protection.

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a. perspective line b. vanishing line c. orthogonal d. giornata

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Computer scientists of the 1960s created "photomosaics" in an attempt to determine the minimal amount of information the human eye needs in order to recognize an image as a three-dimensional figure

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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