Religion and power in the Roman Republic. Magistrates, priests, temples

A comprehensive analysis of the role of religion in the political system of the Roman Republic is presented. Problems are investigated in detail as the sacred content of the Magistrates, the religious powers of higher magistracy (consulate, dictatorships, censorship), the political importance and form of influence of priests (pantiffics and August), the participation of religious and political bodies in the procedure of the establishment of temples, the status of temples in Roman social - Polytic organization. The key issue of the study is to study the right to public Auspics (divination), which expressed the religious and political unity of the Republican state device. The issues of interaction of religion and the authorities are considered in close relationship with the analysis of the specifics of the Roman society and the peculiarities of its worldview.

For specialists, students of humanitarian specialties and all interested in the history of ancient Rome and ancient Religion