This makes Macauley's lines about Horatius at the bridge even more poignant: "for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods"
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The ancient Romans were a genuinely patriarchal society. If a man died without sons to carry out sacrifices at the family tomb his spirit and those of all of his forefathers would be consigned to oblivion. This from "The Ancient City" by Coulanges.pic.twitter.com/ons4POAlNw
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I think I've read that southern Europe isn't overwhelmingly populated by Roman descendants (i.e. less so than language and culture would suggest) so that leaves, sadly, most lines with their spirits unattended to.
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