I think Christianity and the concept of sin did much to engineer the guilt in the first place, it doesn't seem to have existed in classical times, those thought patterns are now secularised into various pathologies
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Emperors often gave tax relief, sometimes helped to rebuild. Only people nearby could help with search and rescue: travel was slow. Rome to Alexandria: 21 days. Rome to Antioch: 26 days.
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Fair enough, I'm not sure how much guilt rather than valour or something else would have been a motivation here, guilt as a complex in the modern sense seems to be a creation of catholicism, I was only using the claim about disaster relief as one way of illustrating the point
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