@BretDevereaux do you remember which post you mentioned that Romans wrote poems about their dead babies? I lost a child recently and I'd like to read that one.
I'm not sure I can think of poems on this topic. I suspect I was referencing Cicero's grief in his letters at the death of his daughter Tullia. I am not sure if the relevant letters have been pulled together (out of the much larger corpus of letters) in an accessible way.
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I wonder if a more philologically-minded classicist could direct you better, perhaps
@sentantiq has something on this? Or@FulkersonLaurel who, if I recall, has done research specifically on remorse and regret in classical literature? -
I would be grateful to anyone who could point me to something like that. I'm sure anything I can read, reaching so far back, would be cathartic. I made an ofrenda for my baby, and it was a comfort to think of the many fathers mourning their babies reaching back centuries.
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